Citations for Serial Literature v2n09 (June 23, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/csl/csl-v2n09 CITATIONS FOR SERIAL LITERATURE ISSN 1061-7434 Volume 2, number 9 June 23, 1993 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In this issue: Serials Review, vol. 19, no. 3, Fall 1993 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SERIALS REVIEW, Volume 19, Number 3, Fall 1993 The Case of the Disappearing Author Margaret Bald In November 1992, National Writers Union member Margaret Bald attended the book publishing industry's first major conference on electronic publishing. During the day, she heard references to "control of rights," "control of content," "control of intellectual property," and "exploiting properties." That writers might retain electronic media rights to "the content" they created was never considered. Some publishers even require their writers to give up their copyrights! Meanwhile, rights and incomes of freelance writers have already been adversely affected. No wonder they are concerned about the new technologies that promise to transform all aspects of publishing. In this article, Bald discusses these concerns and explains why academic writers should care also. She concludes that the various communities and interests most affected by these new technologies must have a voice in shaping how they are implemented. Page 7 The MIT Libraries Electronic Journals Project: Reports on Patron Access and Technical Processing Marlene Manoff, D. Scott Brandt, Carter Snowden, Carol Zoppel, Ellen Finnie Duranceau, and Marilyn Geller, with introduction by Ellen Finnie Duranceau and Marilyn Geller and a sidebar by Mark Hinnebusch The MIT Libraries function within a campuswide UNIX-based network (MITnet) of which Athena is one small part. Access to Athena is possible both on specialized Athena workstations and through dial-up access from a PC. In 1991, the MIT Libraries' Steering Committee charged a task force to investigate the potential impact of electronic journals on the MIT Libraries' collection. In 1992, two groups were formed to carry forward the work begun by that task force: the WAIS/Electronic Journal Evaluation Task Force, charged in July with identifying options for local access to ejournals, and the Task Team on Processing Electronic Journals, charged in September with developing procedures for acquisition and cataloging of ejournals. Their reports, revised for publication, are reprinted here. Hinnebusch's sidebar gives an overview of Z39.50. Page 15 A Review Column Is Born Dottie Eakin It was the fall 1988 annual meeting of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Library Directors and librarians were testy. At one panel discussion, they complained about the rising costs of biomedical journals and the numerous new journals of dubious value. Panelist George D. Lundberg, editor of JAMA: The Journal of American Medical Association, issued a challenge: "If these journals aren't needed, speak up." Then he offered them space in JAMA to review journals. And so a new review column was born, to acquaint physicians with new journals in clinical medicine and to help practitioners and medical librarians select journals. In this article, the column editor describes the genesis of the column, criteria by which journals are evaluated, and the review process. Page 41 Conference Reports Ann Okerson, Scott Bennett, and Nancy D. Anderson Okerson reports on the second annual symposium on scholarly publishing on the electronic networks. Bennett reports on the 11th annual Society for Scholarly Publishing Top Management Roundtable. Anderson reports on the American Mathematical Society panel discussion. Page 45 Serials of the Energy Information Administration Bert Chapman Until the 1970s, obtaining energy-related information from a centralized federal government source was difficult due to the diverse energy information dissemination mechanism of the U.S. government. The 1973 Arab oil embargo highlighted the consequences of not having a centralized source of energy information. The Energy Information Administration was created within the U.S. Department of Energy to make such information available on a widespread basis in a number of publications. In this article, Chapman chronicles and annotates some of these publications. Page 53 Periodicals in Review Edited by Karen Nadeski Sixteen periodicals are reviewed in this column. Contributions are from Birdie MacLennan, Rose Saenz, Valerie J. Sandham, Martha K. Tarlton, and Martha Weil. Page 63 The Balance Point: Perspectives on the Future of Union Listing Ann C. Schaffner, guest editor, with contributions from Betty Landesman, Noelene P. Martin, Jay Schafer, Patricia Erwin, and Bessie K. Hahn While union listing has generated its fair share of debate over the past few decades, this debate has centered on issues such as standards, systems, and the politics of cooperation. The usefulness of union lists has rarely been questioned. However, the environment has changed dramatically; new developments have even led some to question the need for union lists. For this column, a library director, a union list administrator, and others comment on these changes and the issues they raise. Though they may not agree on the future prospects for union lists, they seem to agree that, if union lists survive, they will undergo profound changes in a new technological environment. Page 71 Serials Use Study Raises Questions about Cooperative Ventures Anna L. Price and Kjestine R. Carey In 1986 the Library and Information Resources of the Northwest Division of the Fred Meyer Charitable Trust called for proposals to promote cooperation among libraries in building information resources in the Pacific Northwest. One proposal LIRN funded covered the coordinated collection of science serials at five land grant libraries. This article discusses a use study of 84 science serials purchased by Montana State University under that grant and the implications arising from those results. Page 79 Database Usage and Title Analysis on a CD-ROM Workstation Allan Davis Barbara Carr stated in 1981 that searching commonly requested topics in core periodical indexes at her university led to the selection of several popular titles. If an accumulation of citations could be saved on a hard disk, a CD-ROM workstation could easily collect similar information directly from the user. At the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, a survey of a single-user multidatabase CD-ROM workstation was conducted to unobtrusively gather a sampling of citations copied to disk from users' printings in order to ascertain what databases were being used and which titles were being printed. In this article, Davis analyzes the results. Page 85 SERIALS REVIEW is published by Pierian Press. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *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. All complete and selective table of contents materials in *Citations for serial literature* are reproduced with the permission of the original publisher. The section of this ejournal entitled "Serendipitous citings" includes relevant citations from journals not generally indexed here. These citations are contributed by users. It is the intention of the editor to expand the number of journals included in this database. Editors and publishers interested in participating in this project should contact the editor at sercites@mitvma.mit.edu or mgeller@athena.mit.edu to discuss the possibility. To subscribe, send a message to LISTSERV@MITVMA or LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU that reads: subscribe SERCITES . *Citations for serial literature* is edited and published by Marilyn Geller.