Citations for Serial Literature v2n08 (June 22, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/csl/csl-v2n08 CITATIONS FOR SERIAL LITERATURE ISSN 1061-7434 Volume 2, number 8 June 22, 1993 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In this issue: Serials Review, vol. 19, no. 2, Summer 1993 Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues, NO 84, June 19, 1993 Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues, NO 85, June 20, 1993 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SERIALS REVIEW, Volume 19, Number 2, Summer 1993 Serials in Strategic Planning and Reorganization Elizabeth Davis Ten Have The environment of higher education continues to change rapidly. This change has had a significant impact on research libraries, prompting them to closely examine the services they provide and the role they play. Michigan State University Libraries has recently completed extensive strategic planning that has carefully examined the organization and workflows of technical services. This article discusses the process of strategic planning and the subsequent reorganization of technical services, focusing on the placement of serials acquisitions, cataloging, and processing within the organizational structure. Page 7 Establishing a Current Periodicals Room: Colorado State University's Experience Donnice Cochenour While serials expenditures approach and even surpass 70 percent of materials budgets at many academic libraries, the portion of the serials universe available in United States academic libraries continues to decline. It is critical that the materials available locally be more efficiently managed and serviced for patrons. One element in this process is to determine whether patrons are satisfied with the management decisions made to improve services. After creating a new centralized current periodicals room, the staff at Colorado State University Libraries undertook a survey of the users of this room to determine their satisfaction with the new facilities and services and to gather feedback to facilitate future planning for the room. In this article, Cochenour describes patrons' responses. Page 13 Nursing Research Journals: A Discussion and Research Guide Sharon C. Murphy Nurses comprise the largest group of health professionals providing health screening, health education, and preventive care services to the public. Nursing research directly enhances the quality and quantity of these services. Since the debut of the first journal devoted to nursing research in 1952, the nursing research literature has flourished. This guide provides an annotated bibliography of selected general and specialty nursing research periodicals for librarians, nurses, students, and researchers. Pertinent historical notes outline trends and significant events affecting the development of the nursing literature. Page 23 Do We Know What We Are Paying For? A Comparison of Journal Subscription Costs John O. Christensen How do librarians determine which journals to continue and which to cancel? Several factors are useful, but the journal subscription price seems to be the most used criteria? However, some journals publish over 10,000 pages per year while others publish fewer than 100 pages per year. Some journals contain many single-spaced, small-print pages while others contain a small quantity of triple-spaced large-type pages. In this article, Christensen compares the costs, in dollars per million characters, of journals in the diverse subject areas of chemistry, history, political science, music, and psychology grouped by commercial, non-profit, and trade publisher type. The resulting analysis indicates that the cost of non-profit journals among these five subject areas is nearly the same. However, commercial publishers have been charging and continue to charge two to four times what non-profit publishers are charging for their journals. Page 39 Periodicals in Review Edited by Karen Nadeski Fifteen periodicals are reviewed in this column, which features contributions from Margaret Ferley, Daniel Hanne, Charlotta Hensley, and Pamela Krupanski. Page 63 Tools of the Serials Trade Edited by Mary Case, with contributions from Robert Alan, Joyce L. Ogburn, James R. Mouw, and Kit Kennedy Robert Alan reviews A Changing World: Proceedings of the North American Serials Interest Group, Inc.; Joyce L. Ogburn reviews Social Sciences: An International Bibliography of Serial Literature, 1830-1985; James R. Mouw reviews Advances in Serial Management: A Research Annual; and Kit Kennedy reviews Budgets for Acquisitions: Strategies for Serials, Monographs, and Electronic Formats. Tony Stankus responds to an earlier review of his book, Scientific Journals: Improving Library Collections through Analysis of Publishing Trends, and reviewer Robert Michaelson addresses Stankus' concerns. Page 73 Trends in Historical Scholarship as Evidenced in The American Historical Review: 1896-1990 Jean-Pierre V.M. Herubel and Edward A. Goedeken The growth of historical enquiry has burgeoned to such a point that virtually any human phenomenon is ripe for historical analysis. A familiar approach to historical study is using broad periods such as "medieval," "modern," and "contemporary" to facilitate research and pedagogy. Historians and history bibliographers slice up their respective territories along these lines. Further still, periodization is pedagogically useful in managing unwieldy masses of factual data. Two factors that enhance periodization are geography and subject concentration. In this article, the authors examine The American Historical Review for its content vis-a-vis periodization, subject, and geography. Page 79 Serials Review Index Edited by Douglas A. DeLong Approximately 150 journals in all disciplines published between 1991 and the winter of 1992 were scanned for reviews of serial publications. Page 85 SERIALS REVIEW is published by Pierian Press. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEWSLETTER ON SERIALS PRICING ISSUES NO 84 -- June 19, 1993 Editor: Marcia Tuttle CONTENTS 84.1 COPYRIGHT TOPIC OF JOURNAL PRICES DISCUSSION GROUP AT ALA, Marcia Tuttle 84.2 CLARIFICATION OF KRUYTBOSCH CITATION BY HENDERSON IN NEWSLETTER 81, Kendon Stubbs 84.3 CONSUMERS, EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS! 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The Newsletter is available on the Internet and Blackwell's CONNECT. EBSCO and Readmore Academic customers may receive the Newsletter in paper format from these companies. Back issues of the Newsletter are available electronically. To get a list of available issues send a message to LISTSERV@GIBBS.OIT.UNC.EDU saying INDEX PRICES. To retrieve a specific issue, the message should read: GET PRICES PRICES.xx (where "xx" is the number of the issue). To subscribe to the newsletter, send a message to LISTSERV@GIBBS.OIT.UNC.EDU saying SUBSCRIBE PRICES [YOUR NAME]. Be sure to send that message to the listserver and not to Prices. You must include your name. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Citations for serial literature* is an electronic journal which publishes the table of contents and abstracts, when available, for articles related to the serials information chain. It is NOT an electronic discussion list. 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