Publication Date
2018
Abstract
Theological libraries and scholarly publishing in religion and theology operate within multiple overlapping contexts and economic markets: faith communities, theological education, scholars, libraries, and publishing. This paper will complete an analysis of available religious publishing and theological library purchasing trends in order to create a thicker description of the system of scholarly communication. Even allowing for degrees of uncertainty in the data presented, there remains a significant disconnect in the rising collective costs for publishing versus the declining expenditures among theological libraries. The trend appears to be that the average theological library is purchasing a declining portion of the scholarship. The evidence may suggest an increasingly unsustainable market.
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Collection Development and Management | Religion | Scholarly Publishing
DOI
https://doi.org/10.31046/tl.v11i2.518
Source
Theological Librarianship
Language
English
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Recommended Citation
Keck, Andrew J. “Theological Libraries and Scholarly Publishing in Religion and Theology.” Theological Librarianship 11, no. 2 (2018): 27–37. https://doi.org/10.31046/tl.v11i2.518.
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