From: ANTHONY WATKINSON <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:12:37 +0100 I think this is likely. The argument as you will know is that many researchers are only interested in a single chapter in a monograph and would rather buy one chapter than the whole book BUT of course the commercial usefulness is not yet confirmed. Linking is (one would imagine) confirmed as an aid to scholarship. I write as a former historical researcher Anthony From: "Hutchinson, Alvin" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 13:08:40 +0000 If book chapter indexing and discovery became as standardized as article-level discovery, I wonder if we would begin to se the dis-intermediation of chapters from their "parent" books just as we are seeing articles being sold separately from journal subscriptions. I can imagine users identifying, paying for and downloading chapters instead of purchasing (or asking their library to borrow) the book. And aside from the bibliographic citation listing the book title in which the chapter appears, they might increasingly be treated as distinct publications. Just a thought . . . . Alvin Hutchinson Smithsonian Libraries