California State U. Tries to Create a New Way to Buy On-Line Journals

By LISA GUERNSEY

Vast system seeks to take advantage of its clout with publishers and data-base providers

In their dreams, librarians at California State University envision a digital library that would provide direct access, via the World-Wide Web, to the electronic texts of millions of scholarly articles with one simple yet all-encompassing search.

What's more, the librarians imagine making all that available without

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