Second Thoughts on 'Bundled' E-Journals

Librarians' skepticism grows on colleges' agreements with Elsevier

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

For three years, Cornell University has been providing faculty members and students 24-hour access to more than 1,200 scientific, medical, and technical journals through its subscription to ScienceDirect, an electronic database owned by Elsevier Science.

But its contract for the journals...

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