Protest In Democratic India

"The concept of Westview Special Studies is a response to the

continuing crisis in academic and informational publishing. Library

budgets are being diverted from the purchase of books and used for

data banks, computers, micromedia, and other methods of information

retrieval. Interlibrary loan structures further reduce the edition sizes

required to satisfy the needs of the scholarly community. Economic

pressures on university presses and the few private scholarly publishing

companies have greatly limited the capacity of the industry to properly

serve the academic and research communities. As a result, many

manuscripts dealing with important subjects, often representing the

highest level of scholarship, are no longer economically viable publishing

projects-or, if accepted for publication, are typically subject to

lead times ranging from one to three years."