Kenneth McMahon wrote:
> Perhaps a more useful option would be for such tables of contents to be placed
> by the publisher/editor on a searchable Table of Contents service which acts not
> only as a current awareness service, but as a searchable dataset. One of the
> best in the UK is the BUBL Journals service at:
>
> http://bubl.ac.uk/journals/
>
While, as a retired librarian, I naturally welcome the suggestion that Tables of
Contents should be disseminated as widely as possible, I would argue that this
should be in addition to, not in place of, the inclusion of those from such as_Local
history magazine_ in specific interest-based mailing lists like ours.
Wide-ranging current awareness systems are indeed a blessing for those whose
Internet access is paid for by their academic institution, or by their employer. For
those of us working at home, until that great day in the future when searching the
internet is really free of time/ISP constraints, there is nothing as good as
receiving notice that there is a new issue of a journal _known_ to be of interest,
without the need to waste money searching for something that hasn't yet been added
to a more general database.
Please carry on sending your contents, Susan.
By the way, I immediately logged on to the BUBL dataset run by your library
colleagues but found no immediately visible section on history, though I realize
that this may only be a temporary situation.
Malcolm Shifrin
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