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Re: When is a Journal a Journal (Was Biomed Aggregators)
From: Peter Graham, Rutgers University Libraries Tony Ferguson says, i.a., >...broaches a useful question: Are we in the information business or the > journal collecting business. It's the right question, but should be treated heuristically rather than absolutely. In some senses we are in both businesses. Making decisions about what is important in the journal is affected by what is desired today as well as what is desired tomorrow. Issues of history of science, history of publishing, nature of commercialization of research, and the like come into play as well as the immediate needs of, say, molecular biologists or brain researchers. --pg Peter Graham psgraham@rci.rutgers.edu Rutgers University Libraries 169 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1163 phone: (732)445-5908 fax (732)445-5888 <URL:http://aultnis.rutgers.edu/pghome.html>
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