Iowa State University has withdrawn virtually all back print volumes now covered by our various JSTOR subscriptions. Regarding the others, our Science and Technology Librarian says, "I would dearly love to pitch paper volumes of CA and BA. They take up a LOT of space. Especially CA. We've put ours in storage at least.... . . . In recent past, there were good reasons for keeping Chemical Abstracts - because SciFinder didn't contain all of the indexing for the older articles. They have recently fixed this so it is no longer a concern. Scifinder covers all articles back to volume 1 and does so extremely well these days. It will not affect any Chemistry department accreditations as long as SciFinder remains available on campus.For Biological Abstracts, the main concern is that they were just purchased by ISI and the price of the electronic is likely to skyrocket; however, they also don't cover the entire set online. The online starts with 1965 or 1969 I believe whereas the paper version goes back to 1926." Kristin H. Gerhard Associate Dean for Collections and Technical Services 203 Parks Library Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011 == #2 ==
After reading many discussions, searches,
papers, and reviews in
professional journals, we found many are incomplete
in the e-domain. I
just completed my MLS in Dec. and I just finished writing and
researching at least 25 different
papers on the topic. Online materials often were
incomplete, missing pages, articles, or complete sections of an issue.
I do not know about the specific titles you are refering to, but that
was the general picture I got through using
numerous research methods.
Colette Eason
== #4 ==
From: John Abbott abbottjp@appstate.edu
I am sure Collette is correct in her findings,
but I wonder how significantly those findings differ from
an examination of our stacks for missing pages, chapters, articles in
our bound paper journals held
in JSTOR.
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