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Here’s an unpleasant fact: If the cost of People magazine had risen as fast as the cost of academic library periodicals since 1990, its subscription would cost $150 per year. In this National Library ...

REFERRING to the letter on “Library Stocks of Periodicals” published in NATURE of July 24, Mr. C. C. Barnard writes: “I inadvertently failed to appreciate the proposals of a committee of the ...

Joseph Stalin's intellectual life and biography are explored here through the prism of his personal library. Arguably the 20th century's most self-consciously learned dictator, he "valued ideas as ...