Information market
The information market consists of the sum of agents/agencies who produces, publish, mediates or use information. There are commercial agencies as well as public agencies and "non-profit" agencies.
Some databases such as Science Citation Index is made by a commercial company. MEDLINE is made by a public institution (and is free to use). PsycINFO is published by American Psychological Association (APA), which is a non-profit, professional organization (but PsycINFO is not free to use and may make a profit to APA).
Literature:
Bell, S. J. (2002). New information marketplace competitors: Issues and
strategies for
academic libraries. Portal-Libraries and the Academy, 2(2),
277-303.
DeGennaro, R. (1987). Libraries, Technology and the Information Marketplace: Selected Papers. Boston, MA: G. K. Hall and Co.
Freeman, J. E. & Katz, R. (1978). Information marketing. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 13, 37-59.
Hauffe, H. (2004). Der wissenschaftliche Informationsmarkt – seine Teilnehmer und seine Spielregeln. http://www.uibk.ac.at/ub/mitarbeiter_innen/publikationen/hauffe_der_wissenschaftliche_informationsmarkt.pdf
Paschal, A. W. (2002). The information marketplace: Models and methods.
Econtent, 25(12), S6-S7.
Rowlands, D. G. (1988). Towards an
information market model. ASLIB Proceedings, 40(1), 27-30.
See also: Commercialization; Information economics
Birger Hjørland
Last edited: 13-05-2006