Hi,
I was so pleased when visiting the Wiley site recently to find a
spreadsheet of all the changes for journals in 2003, plus details of new
titles. This is progress I thought. However, when I checked the listing
of journals on their site I wasn't pleased to find that there were
several changes that weren't detailed on the relevant spreadsheets I had
downloaded and examined. I also had been informed by SwetsBlackwell
about a couple of titles changes, neither of which appeared on the Wiley
listings. Once again this meant I couldn't rely on the information
provided, but had to do a manual check of the journals on their site, a
long and tedious process. Even the information provided was not
completely accurate. One journal they said had ceased, Competitive
Intelligence Review, had actually been merged with another journal,
Journal of Organizational Excellence. There was also a journal which was
shown as ceased, when it had in fact changed publisher, that isn't a
cessation in my eyes. At the end I had identified 45 changes/466 titles
in total where amendments to our records needed to be made. That's a
fair amount of change in a couple of months since the site was last
checked.
What I found problematic was the way that Wiley has decided to split the
following titles into separate components i.e. American Journal of
Medical Genetics now has parts A, B & C, Anatomical Record now has parts
A & B, Concepts in Magnetic Resonance now has parts A & B, Cytometry now
has parts A & B, Journal of Experimental Zoology now has parts A & B,
Not only that, but Wiley has split up the backfiles of these journals
and placed the relevant issues under the new parts. One can no longer
find the original "complete" journals listed on the Wiley site.
Whilst it may be true that there were always several sections in each of
these journals before this split was made, I can't understand why this
change has been retrospectively applied. This also means that if you
were looking for a reference in the American Journal of Medical Genetics
prior to 2003, you might be confused to enter the Wiley site and find
only the 2 "new" separate parts listed. There is no longer a reference
to the American Journal of Medical Genetics.
Here is Wiley's explanation for the change in the Anatomical Record.
Starting in 2003, The Anatomical Record and The New Anatomist will be
treated as parts that will appear under the same volume and issue
number, enabling us to publish issues of The New Anatomist in sequence
with issues of The Anatomical Record. Following is an example of what
will appear on the covers.
The Anatomical Record Part A: Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and
Evolutionary Biology Volume 270A, Number 1, January, 2003
The Anatomical Record Part B: The New Anatomist Volume 270B, Number 1,
January, 2003
Within the volume and issue number, Parts A and B will both start with
page number one with the first issue of The New Anatomist publishing
earlier than it has in previous years (the publication schedule will
appear in the beginning of every issue of the journal for reference).
Consequently, citation of The Anatomical Record and The New Anatomist
articles will also change. Citation of the journal's articles should now
associate the part letter next to the volume number using the following
format:
Kao WJ and Liu Y. 2002. Intracellular signaling involved in macrophage
adhesion and FBGC formation as mediated by ligand-substrate interaction.
Anat Rec 270A:478-487.
I hope I've explained this all correctly, I just wondered how other
people on the list viewed these kind of changes, especially when they
are applied retrospectively to a title. Normally a title change works
from the date at which the title changed.
Cheers
Lesley
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