Citations for Serial Literature v2n10 (August 8, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/csl/csl-v2n10 CITATIONS FOR SERIAL LITERATURE ISSN 1061-7434 Volume 2, number 10 August 8, 1993 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In this issue: Serials: The Journal of the United Kingdom Serials Interest Group, vol. 6, no. 2, July 1993 Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues, NO 90, July 26, 1993 Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues, NO 91, July 30, 1993 Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory, vol. 17, no. 3, 1993 (selective) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIALS: THE JOURNAL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM SERIALS GROUP Volume 6 Number 2 July 1993 Editorial..................................3 UKSG News..................................3 News compiled by Fiona Tipple.............6 News from North America by Arlene Moore Sievers............9 Letters to the Editor.....................15 Serials and new technologies: opportunities for libraries, problems for the law and threats to publishers by Gerard A J S van Marle.........16 The Pica RAPDOC Project: from interlibrary loan to electronic document delivery by Look Costers...................24 Spanish communication channels by Miguel Jiminez.................29 FOUDRE: a French project for electronic document delivery by Celine Menil...................33 The changing role of the subscription agent by David Sidebottom...............36 The Hobby Horse column: an open letter to the National Library of Medicine By John Urquhart..................42 Journals, VAT and the single European market by John Cox and Steve Goodridge...44 Costings of library technical services: a bibliography by James Dearnley.................46 Annual periodical prices for 1993.........50 Conference Reports: [Report on] A day in the life of a journal publisher (UKSG seminar, November 1992) by Caroline Moss-Gibbons..........52 [Report on] Scholarly communication in the sciences, Science Museum, April 1993 by A Prior and H Woodward.........55 [Report on] Taming the electronic jungle (UKSG and NAG joint conference, May 1993 by Deborah Stanley................57 Document supply: challenge and opportunity by Christine Baldwin..............61 Electronic information: access, control and availability by Derek Law......................67 Struggling against the odds post-disaster: rebuilding the information system in Kuwait by Andrew McDonald................73 [Report on] 16th UKSG Annual Conference...81 People edited by John Jardine............86 Bookshelf edited by Stella Pilling.........90 Diary.....................................94 Abbreviations and acronyms: a user-friendly guide through the jargon jungle by Geoffrey Gilbert...............96 ************************ SERIALS (ISSN 0953-0460) is published by the United Kingdom Serials Group three times a year. Subscription is through membership of the Group, which costs 49.33 pounds sterling for 1993. Contact: Mrs Jill Tolson, Administrator UKSG, 114 Woodstock Road Witney, OX8 6DY, UK (Phone 0993 703 446, Fax 0993 778 879) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEWSLETTER ON SERIALS PRICING ISSUES NO 90 -- July 26, 1993 Editor: Marcia Tuttle CONTENTS 90.1 FROM THE EDITOR, Marcia Tuttle 90.2 FIRM PRICES: POSSIBILITIES AND CHALLENGES, F. Dixon Brooke, Jr. 90.3 ELEANOR COOK'S MYSTERY PUBLISHER'S LICENSE AGREEMENTS, Georgia Harper 90.4 HAMAKER'S HAYMAKERS, Chuck Hamaker *********************** NEWSLETTER ON SERIALS PRICING ISSUES NO 91 -- July 30, 1993 Editor: Marcia Tuttle CONTENTS 91.1 LETTER FROM JAMES KELS: ELSEVIER PRICES 91.2 ELECTRONIC JOURNALS: THE "RED SAGE" APPROACH, Robert Badger and Margaret Wallace 91.3 FROM THE MAILBOX ************************ The NEWSLETTER ON SERIALS PRICING ISSUES (ISSN: 1046-3410) is published by the editor through the Office of Information Technology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as news is available. Editor: Marcia Tuttle, Internet: tuttle@gibbs.oit.unc.edu; Paper mail: Serials Department, CB #3938 Davis Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill NC 27599-3938; Telephone: 919 962-1067; FAX: 919 962-0484. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory_ Selected Contents Volume 17, Number 3 1993 Manuscripts Mason, Pamela. Developing Indexes for the New Media: A CD- ROM Case History. This article is based on a presentation given July 1, 1991, at the American Library Association's annual conference. It reports on an attempt to develop a CD-ROM price index modelled on the price indexes for serials and other materials produced under the aegis of ALA's Library Materials Price Index Committee and conforming to ANSI Standard Z39.20-1983. This proved to be an impossible task, primarily because of the inability to define a reliable unit of measurement for CD-ROM prices and the difficulty of tracking a sufficiently representative sample of the universe of CD-ROM titles purchased by libraries over the period from 1988-91. However, the value of simply tracking the prices of a data sample without a base index year -- a price inventory -- was recognized by the Committee. The data gathered thus far was analyzed to show price trends by LC subject classification and publication types (monographs and serials). The 4.3% increase from 1989 to 1990 reflects the change from $1,783 to $1,860 in publication price for the average CD-ROM title. The evolution and stabilization of the CD-ROM publishing industry in the 1990s should support the eventual establishment of a CD- ROM price index, on which work continues. ALA Midwinter -- Auto Acq Discussion Group -- Is There a Future for Acquisitions and Document Delivery? Julia A. Gammon. Is There a Future for Acquisitions and Document Delivery? An Introduction. Ron L. Ray. A Skeptic's View of the Future for Combined Acquisitions and Document Delivery. Lynne Branche Brown. Expert Systems and Document Delivery in an Automated Acquisitions Environment Jeri Van Goethem. Whether by Byte or by Tome, BUYING Information is "Acquisitions Conference Reports Ron L. Ray. 1992 Charleston Conference on Book and Serial Acquisitions: A Report. ALA Midwinter 1993 Alexander, Adrian W. ACRL Journal Costs in Academic Libraries Discussion Group. Keating, Lawrence R. II ALCTS SS Research Libraries Discussion Group. Nisonger, Thomas E. Electronic Journals: Post-Modern Dream or Nightmare. Report of the ALCTS, CMDS Collection Development Librarians of Academic Libraries Discussion Group. Geer-Butler, Beverley. LITA/ALCTS Serials Automation Interest Group: Prevention of Workplace Injuries. Hamilton, Marsha. ALCTS Pre-order/Pre-catalog Search Discussion Group. Boissonnas, Christian. ALCTS Acquisitions Administrators Discussion Group. Boissonnas, Christian. ALCTS Acquisitions Librarians/Vendors of Library Materials Discussion Group. Review Section Cramer, Michael. A Changing World: Proceedings of the North American Serials Interest Group. Davis, Susan. National Directory of Magazines 1993. Gangl, Susan. CD-ROM Periodical Index. ***************** LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS: PRACTICE & THEORY is published by Pergamon 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. 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