July 16, 1999

California State U. Adopts New Model to Pay for Journals

By LAWRENCE BIEMILLER

Seven months ago, California State University officials said they wanted to create a new model for subscribing to scholarly journals, one that took advantage of the 23-campus system's buying power to get scholars easy electronic access to a wide range of titles. Now, the officials say, they have succeeded.

Instead of negotiating with multiple publishers over packages of titles dictated by the publishers, the

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