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Re: When is a Journal a Journal (Was Biomed Aggregators)
I think Mary Kay's discussion of what we get when we use an aggregator that breaks down the sense of the individual journal broaches a useful question: Are we in the information business or the journal collecting business. I suggest that when the collecting of journals gets in the way of collecting information, we need to reevaluate our collecting practices. To answer Ann's question concerning the capability of browsing by journal titles in Lexis/Nexis, Dow-Jones, Ebscohost and Periodicals Abstracts, yes, that capability is available on all these services. But I'd agree that the net effect of aggregating articles on fulltext services is to break down the sense of the individual journal, since layout and some of the particular features such as letters may be lacking. Probably the effect for the publisher of participating in these services will be to ensure the individual subscription base, since the professional in the field will need to continue to have access to the whole publication, while teaching needs at the comprehensive university probably can be satisfied by online text cum graphics for articles. The one subscription dropped by the library may well translate into several individual ones placed by researchers. This would certainly match the pattern of increased sales following digital full text access experienced by a few hardy publishers such as National Academy Press. Anthony W. Ferguson Associate University Librarian 514 Butler Columbia University Libraries MC1103 535 West 114th Street New York, NY 10027 Tel. 212-854-7401 Fax. 212-854-9099 (new fax number!!!!!!!!!!!) Net: ferguson@Columbia.edu
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