Digital material in the university: statement of impacts

Digital material, in particular periodicals, represents a more and more important part of the documentary resources of universities. After a main statement, this article seeks to examine the transformations engendered by this new mode of dissemination: transformations concerned with the evaluation and selection of resources, with co-operation between libraries, and with the distribution of titles - with a dual effect of expansion and growing shortage. Before taking into account in future the notion of "stocks" and that of "flux", the documentary map calls for a remodelled and extended definition of libraries of reference and resort.
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