#8 Exponential Library Growth

[SCHULTZ () CDDIS GSFC NASA GOV <SCHULTZ () CDDIS GSFC NASA GOV>]

    In YSN #1314, Dean Schulze writes:

>    Keisler does finally locate one of the causes of increasing costs:
> libraries..........  The reason that libraries contribute to out-of-
> control university costs is the outrageous inflation in the price of 
> journals and books, and the proliferation of marginal journals which 
> libraries feel compelled to subscrtibe to.

Maybe if universities did not force their professors to publish so
many useless papers in order to win tenure, but instead to publish 
just a few papers when they had some meaningful results to report,
there wouldn't BE so many marginal journals which the libraries 
would feel compelled to subscribe to, and my university wouldn't be 
calling me to ask for money because they need to build an addition
onto the library to house all of those useless papers in perpetuity.
Just a thought

Dan Schultz

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