Tuesday, the Federal Reserve's Term Asset-backed Securities Lending Facility had its highest subscription ever at $11.4 billion.
On Tuesday, the Federal Reserve reported that the two-month-old Term Asset-backed Lending Facility (TALF), under which investors borrow funds in order to buy securities backed by consumer loans, had its highest subscription ever at $11.4 billion.
Though criticized for its poorly timed launch and high subscription fee, Sega Channel has been praised for its innovations in downloadable content, impacts on online services for video games, and effects on the cable television industry.
Given the high subscription cost, it is perhaps not surprising that the service includes an element of live assistance.
Ulph says the high subscription figures aren't what they seem.
The high subscription cost of prestigious peer-reviewed journals has been a running sore point with scholars, whose tenure and prominence depend on publishing in them.
The open access movement arose in response to the high subscription fees for scientific journals, which in some cases can amount to thousands of dollars a year.
Faculty members are scheduled to vote on a measure that would permit Harvard to distribute their scholarship online, instead of signing exclusive agreements with scholarly journals that often have tiny readerships and high subscription costs.
