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Nature 395, 739-740 (22 October 1998) | doi:10.1038/27308

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B. Annapoorani1, S. Amba1 & K. S. Raghavan2

  1. Information Area, Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai 600 020, India
  2. Department of Library and Information Science, University of Madras, Chennai 600 005, India

Science and research libraries in India continue to spend a large proportion of their budgets on subscriptions to printed versions of journals, but frequently cannot subscribe to electronic-only or electronic versions of print journals owing to lack of infrastructure facilities and access to the Internet. Discussions on this topic have overlooked another important development in journal publishing — what is termed the 'hybrid' journal.