European eBooks & eJournals in Humanities & Social Sciences

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European eBooks & eJournals in Humanities & Social Sciences

Wednesday, March 19, 2014 at 10:10 AM–10:55 AM CDT

Room 203

Conference Track

2. Collection Development & Assessment

Keywords

European academic eContent, HSS medium and small publishers

Learning Objectives

1. Receive a picture of the European academic publishing in Humanities & Social Sciences.

2. Recognise the significant differences between the HSS and the STM sectors.

3. Evaluate the impact on libraries collections and publishers editorial plans.

Abstract

The presentation will give the principal characteristics of digital academic publishing in Humanities & Social Sciences in Europe, and highlight the strong differences between the HSS and the STM sectors: among these the large number of medium and small publishers, the distribution among different languages and countries, the discipline niches.