Nicholas,
Thank you for posting these results, and for taking the time to
summarize them. I think they will be useful to librarians and
publishers alike (not to mention printers...).
I am interested in looking at something related to the move to
e-only, and would like to ask librarians (and publishers) for
comments: if libraries move to e-only, then they and publishers
can no longer assume that both media (print and online) are
available. The publishers that HighWire works with refer to
this as "making the online journal the 'journal of record'". If
librarians are going to move to e-only, then systems and
services for electronic journals obviously have to support that.
I am looking for anecdotes from librarians and publishers that
illustrate the subtle meaning of this shift to an electronic
'journal of record'. Anecdotes might include situations where
librarians (or patrons) have referred to an electronic journal
for something, but have had to return to the paper journal in
the end because what they wanted was not to be found or was not
usable online.
Some obvious examples: supplements being printed, but not posted
online; perpetual access (i.e., access after a subscription has
been cancelled). Some less obvious examples might be the
accuracy of color/greyscale reproduction in figures, as
displayed on monitors and printers, vs. printed journals; the
ability to identify the editorial board of a journal prior to
the current editorial board; etc.
If others would send me examples, I will summarize for the list
and for the publishers that HighWire serves. Or you can post
examples to the list, which I think will help us all see the
issues we need to address.
John
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John Sack, Director
HighWire Press, Stanford University
Phone: 650-723-0192; fax: 650-725-9335
http://highwire.stanford.edu/~sack
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On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:23:41 +0000 Nicholas Lewis
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> Results: Survey on moving to 'electronic-only' for journals
>
> Thanks again to all those who took part in this informal survey. It has
> certainly informed our thinking here at UEA and I hope the results will be
> beneficial to others who are debating this issue.
>
> This is a summary of the more detailed write-up of this survey which is
> available here: http://www.uea.ac.uk/~l002/eonlysurvey.html
>
> The purpose of this survey was to take a “snapshot in time” to see how
> many libraries are taking steps towards electronic-only for their journal
> collections.
>
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