Librarians have included the assessment of web and other resources to their information literacy curricula. Electronic archives New forms of electronic access to articles, not yet tried at URI, are worth monitoring. Once an article is selected by any patron it becomes freely available to all other patrons of the same library. The Michigan experiment was promising enough that Vanderbilt University signed up for a generalized subscription for 1998. We should probably not assume that buying articles will cost us less than buying journals.
PEAK has two serious limitations at present.
First, it covers only one publisher's journals. Second, while selected articles remain available on a server, they apparently cannot be printed. A modified version of PEAK that overcame these limitations could be an attractive option for URI Libraries. Vanderbilt's Experience with Articles on Demand. Special thanks go to Artemis Kirk for drafting section 2.2 and appendix 1. 2.