Citations for Serial Literature v2n14 (December 31, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/csl/csl-v2n14 CITATIONS FOR SERIAL LITERATURE ISSN 1061-7434 Volume 2, number 14 December 31, 1993 ------------------------------------------------------------- In this issue: Serials: The Journal of the United Kingdom Serials Group, vol.6, no. 3, November 1993 Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues, NS 101, December 3, 1993 Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, no. 8, December 1993 (selective) ------------------------------------------------------------- SERIALS: THE JOURNAL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM SERIALS GROUP Volume 6 Number 3 November 1993 Editorial..................................4 UKSG News..................................7 Committee report...........................8 News......................................12 News from North America...................16 Letters...................................21 Hobby Horse...............................22 Second European Serials Conference Serials and new technologies: opportunities for libraries, problems for the law and threats to publishers (part 2) by Gerard AJ S van Marle..........24 16th UKSG Annual Conference Current awareness and document delivery: the changing market by David Brown....................29 Electronic delivery of research information by Fytton Rowland.................27 Telecommunications infrastructure: problems and solutions by Bill Tuck......................51 The effect of serial prices on information provision by Malcolm Stevenson..............58 Reports from workshops....................64 The journal at the crossroads Why journals are published: the author the editor and the review process by Bernard Donovan................69 General articles The shifting sands of technological change: the middleman as navigator by John Cox.......................75 The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers: a profile by Bernard Donovan................78 Out and about on the conference and seminar circuit.......................81 People edited by John Jardine............88 Bookshelf edited by Stella Pilling.........94 Diary.....................................97 Abbreviations and acronyms................98 *************** 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 52.62 pounds sterling for 1994. 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 101 -- December 3, 1993 Editor: Marcia Tuttle CONTENTS 101.1 FAXON COMPANY CONTINUES FAMILY OWNERSHIP IN COURT DECREE 101.2 GORDON AND BREACH EXPLAINS PRICING STRUCTURE, Chris Schneider 101.3 AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING EXPERIMENTS 101.4 "DUKE MATHEMATICAL RIPOFF," Anthony Ferguson 101.5 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. 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