Citations for Serial Literature v4n02 (March 4, 1995) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/csl/csl-v4n02 CITATIONS FOR SERIAL LITERATURE ISSN 1061-7434 Volume 4, number 2 March 4, 1995 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- In this issue: CONSERline, no. 4, January 1995 Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues, vol. 0, no.130, Jan.6, 1995 Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues, vol. 0, no.131, Jan. 24, 1995 Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues, vol. 0, no. 132, Feb. 19, 1995 Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory, vol. 19, no.1, 1995 Serials Review, vol. 21, no. 1, 1995 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONSERline ~~~~~~~~~~ Newsletter of the CONSER (Cooperative Online Serials) Program ISSN 1072-611X No. 4 Library of Congress January 1995 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CONTENTS Editor's Note Linda West Begins Term as New Policy Chair Core Record for Serials Remote Access Computer Files Working Group on Conference Publications Five Institutions Assist in Maintaining CONSER Records A Participant's View of the CONSER Maintenance Project ISSN Directors Meet in Paris _CONSER Editing Guide_ Update *************** _CONSERline_ (ISSN 1072-611X) is published at least semiannually (January and June) by the Library of Congress, Serial Record Division and OCLC, Inc. and contains news of the CONSER Program and information of interest to the serials cataloging community. 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To get a specific file, send a mail message to listserv@sun7.loc.gov with the text: get consrlin [filename]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 0 number 130 ISSN: 1046-3410 NEWSLETTER ON SERIALS PRICING ISSUES NO 130 -- January 6, 1995 Editor: Marcia Tuttle CONTENTS 130.1 GORDON & BREACH/HARWOOD ACADEMIC NETWORK RATE EXPLAINED, Luigi Fort 130.2 1994 LATIN AMERICAN PERIODICAL PRICE INDEX, Scott Van Jacob 130.3 PRINT JOURNALS: TRAGIC LOSS OR GOOD RIDDANCE? Carolyn Kotlas 130.4 _PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS_ ONLINE IN 1995: Press Release, Maria L. Lebron 130.5 SERIALS PRICING ISSUE REVISITED, Michael Lean 130.6 GORDON AND BREACH, Jim Vickery ------------------------- Volume 0 number 131 ISSN: 1046-3410 NEWSLETTER ON SERIALS PRICING ISSUES NO 131 -- January 24, 1995 Editor: Marcia Tuttle CONTENTS 131.1 FROM THE EDITOR 131.2 JOLANDA VON HAGEN DIES DECEMBER 12, 1994, Marcia Tuttle 131.3 ACRL JOURNAL COSTS IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES DISCUSSION GROUP, 4 Cindy Hepfer 131.3 FROM THE MAILBOX ------------------------- Volume 0 number 132 ISSN: 1046-3410 NEWSLETTER ON SERIALS PRICING ISSUES NO 132 -- February 19, 1995 Editor: Marcia Tuttle CONTENTS 132.1 ACRL JOURNAL COSTS IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES DISCUSSION GROUP: NEGOTIAT- ING PRICES AND LICENSES FOR NETWORKED ELECTRONIC INFORMATION. ALA MIDWINTER, FEBRUARY 4, 1995, Ann O'Neill *************** 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 27514-8890; Telephone: 919 962-1067; FAX: 919 962-4450. The Newsletter is available on the Internet, Blackwell's CONNECT, and Readmore's ROSS. EBSCO customers may receive the Newsletter in paper format. To subscribe to the newsletter send a message to LISTSERV@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. To unsubscribe (no name required in message), you must send the message from the e-mail address by which you are subscribed. If you have problems, please contact the editor. Back issues of the Newsletter are available electronically. To get a list of available issues send a message to LISTSERV@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). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory_ Selected Contents Volume 19, Number 1 Announcements 1995 Research Award: Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory Feather River Institute Schmidt, Karen A. The Vision Thing: Developing a Vision for Acquisitions. Barker, Joseph W. Triggering Constructive Change By Managing Organizational Culture in an Academic Library. Boissonnas, Christian M. Darwinism in Technical Services: Natural Selection in an Evolving Information Delivery Environment. This paper looks at technical services from an evolutionary theory perspective. Basic evolutionary theory concepts, such as natural selection and the Red Queen and how they are applicable to libraries and the library profession are examined. Specifically, the paper includes a discussion of the nature of change and the relationship between organizational change in libraries and changes in the information delivery landscape, why traditional technical services organizational structures no longer fit current needs, what the ideal technical services organization for the current times might be, and what is being done at Cornell to adapt. Cargille, Karen. The Upside of Downsizing. Libraries throughout the U.S. are choosing to deal with severe budget constraints over the past few years by placing a freeze on hiring and, subsequently, downsizing staff. The Acquisitions Department at University of California, San Diego is no exception; however, the downsizing has had a definite up side. During this period, we have seen increases in productivity and decreases in throughput time for materials in technical services. Individual jobs are now more diverse; there is more cross-training among units; automated methods to assist processing are being more fully explored in order to make better use of the resources available; there is even a blurring between the duties of the Cataloging Department and the Acquisitions Department. Additionally, increased job responsibility has already resulted in upward reclassification of a few positions, and other positions are emerging as candidates for reclassification review. Devlin, Mary and Meta Nissley. Ethics and Good Business Practices: Case Studies. Manuscripts Alexander, Adrian W. Periodical Prices, 1992-1994. This annual comparative periodical price study is the twenty-first in a continuous series of studies compiled and published by the Faxon Company since 1974. These studies compare serial prices and identify significant price changes, patterns, and trends in a variety of categories over the most recent three-year time period. The purpose of this pricing series is to provide current and historical price data for use in planning library serials budgets for both domestic and foreign published titles. ALA Annual 1994 -- Conference Reports Dykeman, Amy. Coping with Fluctuating Budgets: Report of the Program Sponsored by the ALCTS Research & Statistics Committee Nisonger, Thomas E. Access and Holdings: Integrating Issues of Access and Collection Development: sponsored by the LAMA Systems and Services Section, Conference Program Committee. German, Lisa. Let the Sun Shine In: Evaluating Ethics in Publisher/Vendor-Library Relations : A Report of the Program Flood, Susan. ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services Discussion Group, June 27, 1994 Flood, Susan. ALCTS Commercial Technical Committee, June 28, 1994. Review Section Nissley, Meta. Electronic Access to Information: A New Service Paradigm; Proceedings from a Symposium held July 23 through 24, 1993, Palo Alto, California. *************** LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS: PRACTICE & THEORY is published by Pergamon Press. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SERIALS REVIEW, vol. 21, no. 1, 1995 Special Theme: Policy, Issues, and Networked Information Part 3, edited by Czeslaw Jan Grycz Telecommunications Policy Reform Initiative Office of Vice President Al Gore Inasmuch as the series of essays Serials Review has published in this and the previous two issues are intended to explore policy issues surrounding the creation of an electronic environment that can enhance and promote the exchange of scholarly and scientific publications, it was felt that an exemplar of the policy statements issued from the Clinton White House on these matters might be suitably included in this collection. In this article, which was released on 11 January 1994, several matters of direct consequences to the exchange of information along distributed networks are raised and discussed. Page 7 Some Possible Government Roles in Information Infrastructure Vinton G. Cerf The idea behind Internet was the seamless linking of many different kinds of packet-switched networks. By 1982, the TCP/IP protocols were widely used and the Department of Defense had declared them standards for military use. The Internet has blossomed in the subsequent 10 years. The system links over 10,000 networks in roughly 50 countries and is doubling annually in users, networks, hosts, and traffic. Internet is growing faster than any other telecommunications system ever built. Perhaps even more important, this federal investment in research has created new industries revolving at first around the hardware and software of Internet technology and more recently around network and information services supported by the Internet. In this article, adapted from congressional testimony, Cerf, who co-developed the idea of gateways and wrote the first specification for the basic TCP/IP protocols now used in the Internet, offers ways the U.S. government can profitably continue its investment in Internet. Page 11 The Policy Role of User Studies Ann Peterson Bishop and Cliff Bishop Though social science researchers conduct user-oriented studies of computer networking, their work is often underutilized by federal policymakers and others who make important decisions about the goals, design, and support of networked systems. Yet the need for more widespread studies of network use is demonstrably great. A policy rationale for such studies can be articulated by considering both what existing federal network policies say about user studies and what role user studies can play in improving future policy. User studies are important, in other words, for achieving government accountability and effectiveness. In this article, Bishop and Bishop discuss what user studies are, explore the common reasons why user studies are not done, then suggest ways to enhance the role of user studies in policy. Page 17 A Role for Libraries in Electronic Publication Frank Quinn Journal subscription costs have been rising rapidly and have absorbed all movable resources in many libraries. Subscriptions are being cancelled, and access to scholars has been reduced. Even so shelves are filling rapidly. Knowledge continues to grow, and more outlets are needed. Miraculously, electronic journals seem a wonderful solution: pay less, get more. Unfortunately serious problems with access, quality control, and financing have held up development of this medium. Left to itself the transition will be chaotic and damaging. In this article, Quinn describes a controlled transition that would serve the needs of scholarship within current budgets and without sacrificing quality. The major features are a shift of primary journal publication to research libraries and concentration of commercial publishers on texts and monographs. Page 27 Little Magazine Interview Index Yvonne Schofer and Barbara Richards Schofer and Richards present the tenth-anniversary issue of their yearly index to interviews appearing in the little magazines received for the Department of Special Collections at University of Wisconsin-Madison. The remarkable expansion of small magazines, they note, documents a movement of resistance to the ever-increasing domination of the commercial media. In this index, 444 interviews appear, fewer than in the previous issue. The authors draw no conclusions as to diminishing numbers since new little magazines continue to appear at a steady rate; it may simply be an indication of their widening range of interests. Page 31 Editorial Peer Review: Research, Current Practices, and Implications for Librarians Ann C. Weller In this article, Weller places editorial peer review in a historical context. Current editorial peer review practices as well as the role of the author, editor, and reviewer are summarized. The limitations of peer review include the unlikelihood of detecting fraud, duplicate submissions, or errors in a manuscript; the difficulty of accepting radical new thinking; the issues raised by the responsibility of authorship; and the biases of either the reviewer or the editor. Safeguards within these limitations include guidelines for reviewers, both context and statistical, anonymity, signed authorship responsibility, and resubmission after rejection. Editorial peer review is an area of increasing interest to librarians as they have had to examine their collections closely and expand their role as experts in the area of publication and the publication process. The librarian's important role as researcher in the field of editorial peer review is examined. A number of researchable editorial peer review topics are included. Page 53 Relying on the Kindness of Strangers: Archiving Electronic Journals on Gopher Donnice Cochenour and Tom Moothart, with a sidebar by Gopher and Archie Review Panel, MIT Libraries The anticipated and much acclaimed era of the virtual library is approaching reality as the Internet traffic increases at an estimated 20 percent to 25 percent each month. New electronic journal titles are being announced weekly. Gopher is considered by many to be the de facto standard for providing access to these journals. Many libraries are choosing to rely on other sites' files rather than loading the titles onto local Gopher servers. According to Cochenour and Moothart, by abdicating the responsibility of developing local electronic journal collections, libraries are losing control over the format, appearance, and future access to these publications. Libraries need to consider the criteria and methods for making these publications available for the researchers of today and tomorrow. An accompanying sidebar discusses criteria proposed as guidelines by specialists at MIT in deciding whether to provide access through local or remote electronic collections. Page 67 The Balance Point: The Economics of Electronic Publishing Edited by Ellen Finnie Duranceau, with contributions by Stevan Harnad, Frank Quinn, Gail McMillan, Fytton Rowland, Robert H. Marks, and Janet H. Fisher In recent months, a wide-ranging debate about the economics of electronic publishing has been raging over the Internet. Various models have been proposed, and commentators have taken positions ranging from that of Stevan Harnad, who believes electronic publishing could save 70 percent of print publishing costs and change the structure of scholarly publication entirely, to Robert Marks of the American Chemical Society, who maintains that potential cost savings are negligible. In this issue of Balance Point, Harnad, Marks, and four others, all of whom have extensive professional experience with electronic publishing, present their own visions of the economics of publishing electronically, continuing and formalizing the Internet debate. Page 77 Tools of the Serials Trade Teresa Malinowski, with contributions from Margaret A. Rioux and Carol Bednar Margaret Rioux reviews Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists and Carol Bednar reviews Introductory CD ROM Searching: The Key to Effective Ondisc Searching. 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