Color is an excellent point. Advertisements in Art magazines can be useful and are not included in the online editions.
 
Additionally, science magazines/journals are problematic, when they do not have color in the online editions. I haven't looked lately, but Sky and Telescope when it was scanned into our online databases did not have color. 
 
Embargoing is a problem with databases, when subject currency is an issue.
 
Vernell Ward
 
 
Serials/Government Documents Librarian
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"To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere,
is about as sensible as asking if roadmaps are necessary now that there are so very many roads."
 
---Jon Bing, 2009. American Libraries

>>> On Thursday, October 07, 2010 at  2:57 PM, in message <74F7713ED0296A478ABBE7CE1421A5E5382132@SQNEWMAIL.admin.ads.stjohns.edu>, Tian Zhang <ZHANGT@STJOHNS.EDU> wrote:

I just want to add one issue for you to consider when you are going E-materials. Some art journals do not have good quality of the pictures in online version, and we need to keep the print version as well as the online one.

 

Tian Zhang

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Subject: [SERIALST] Advice on moving titles from print to electronic

 

All responses to this question will be greatly appreciated.

Our library is working to eliminate duplicate coverage of serials titles that we may have in both print and electronic formats. We want to replace print coverage with electronic coverage whenever possible.

1. I am wondering if anyone out there may have done a similar project in the past and if so, what advice you may have on how to successfully complete such an inventory?

2. Post-subscription coverage of electronic titles (perpetual access) is a major concern. So, I am also wondering if anyone has any advice on how to go about deciding what titles to keep in print and which ones to keep in electronic format?

Thank you very much!