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Academic and professional journals provide scholars important reference, technical, and historical information. But packed into the increasingly crowded stacks of university libraries, these journals are often inconvenient to access, expensive to store, and in many cases deteriorating with the march of time. First of all, consider that the number of published journals grows annually, as does the number of printed pages per journal. Traditionally, as stacks fill to capacity, libraries must move journals to remote locations to make room for newer issues or to devote more shelf space to books. But the costs of remote storage and retrieval add to budget pressures.