(UC3M) desde 1992. Imparte clases sobre gestión y dirección de bibliotecas en los estudios de grado, master y doctorado. Su principal línea de investigación son las funciones y técnicas de gestión aplicadas a las bibliotecas (evaluación, calidad, planificación y marketing) y las fuentes de información. Autora y co-autora de trabajos publicados en revistas nacionales e internacionales del área (Library management, Library review, Libri, The electronic library, etc.).
where she is chair of the Condor Group (Organizing and use of contents), which conducts research on knowledge organization, collections development, and usage of electronic journals. She teaches courses on authority control, knowledge organization, and scientific communication. She is the author of three monographs and co-author of another 10. In addition, she has around 60 articles in international and national journals. She has been head of 10 research projects and has participated in another 6.
She teaches library management, resource management (human, library collection, financial, and economics), administration and management techniques, and other related subjects in courses leading to undergraduate and graduate degrees in library and documentation sciences. Her main line of research is management functions and techniques as applied to libraries (evaluation, quality, planning, and marketing). Author and co-author of various works published in both national and international journals (Library management, Library review, Libri, The electronic library, Interlending & document supply, Performance measurement and metrics, etc.).
We study the phenomenon of the big deal, a subscription model for scientific journals that emerged at the turn of the millennium aimed especially at library consortia, which were offered the opportunity to exponentially increase their access to scientific information, thus breaking the previous trend of continuous cuts to the collections of the periodicals available in libraries. Its strengths, the expansion of the availability of content, and its impact on the diversification of use and the productivity of researchers are presented herein. Likewise, its weaknesses are highlighted, such as the constant increase in prices and the finding of the concentration of use in a limited set of content. These disadvantages have led to questioning and resulted in the evaluation of big deals, a search for alternatives, and cancellations in times of crisis. In recent years, the latter have been linked to the perception that the cost–benefit balance of big deals has been altered by the proliferation of open-access content. Finally, we address the revision of the traditional big deal through transformative agreements where subscription costs are offset by publication costs, which are intended to be a mechanism to accelerate the transition to open access.
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