Re: Clinical Neurophysiology, Volume 111, Suppl. 1 (Cindy Hepfer) Marcia Tuttle 26 Apr 2001 12:57 UTC
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:38:12 -0400 From: Cindy Hepfer <hslcindy@acsu.buffalo.edu> Subject: Re: Clinical Neurophysiology, Volume 111, Suppl. 1 (fwd) The following message from Elly Tjoa relates to an inquiry posted to Serialst April 13 by Wanda Freeman. My library was having the same problem (we too were claiming v.111, suppl. 1 and hadn't gotten either the issue in question or an explanation from our agent). So I wrote John Tagler at Elsevier and asked him to forward the inquiry to the appropriate person in the company, figuring there would be numerous Serialst subscribers who would like an answer. Wanda's original message stated: "We received a "Supplement 2" for volume 111, dated September 2000 -- yet we never received a Supplement 1. Our claims agent found no mention of the missing supplement on the publishers' website, nor has she received a response to her query dated a month ago. Has anyone out there received a Supplement 1, or a satisfactory resolution to its absence?" Very shortly after I wrote John, Wanda forwarded a message from Laurel Sanders that stated: "Our agents inquired for us in early Jan. and were told that Suppl. 1 was not included in the subscription price; it is devoted to abstracts of a meeting held in Lyon. At the time they said there were limited no. of copies available for about $25.00." Elly Tjoa's message confirms Laurel's information. In addition, it provides an explanation from the publisher's point of view, and some insights into how publishers have to deal with the needs of the societies that own journals. But I think that the explanation also provides all of us who manage serials subscriptions (libraries and subscription agencies alike) with an opportunity to commiserate about a publishing practice that can result in unnecessary claims -- and work -- and leave what looks like gaps in our collections. Cindy Hepfer ******************************************************* Cindy Hepfer Head, Collection Management Services Editor, Serials Review Health Sciences Library, Abbott Hall University at Buffalo 3435 Main Street Buffalo, NY 14214-3002 716-829-3900 x124; Fax: 716-829-2211 hslcindy@buffalo.edu ******************************************************* > Dear Ms. Hepfer, > I received your e-mail from John Tagler about the above issue and I'll try > to explain the situation. > > Once in a while we publish the abstracts for congresses of Member > Societies of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology > (IFCN) for use at the congress only. The congress organization orders and > pays for just enough issues needed for the participants and the issue is > not for distribution to the subscribers. In order not to take too many > pages away from the normal issues, the IFCN decided to publish this kind > of issues as a supplement issue to the existing volume. > Vol. 111, Suppl. 1 consisted of the abstracts of the European Clinical > Neurophysiology Society meeting in Lyon, August 2000. > Vol. 110, Suppl. 1 were the abstracts of the XI Int. Congress of EMG and > Clinical Neurophysiology, Prague, September 1999. Because there was no > Suppl. 2 to this volume, nobody claimed this issue. > > Issues devoted to a particular subject, very often proceedings of a small > congress, also are published as supplements to a volume of the journal, > e.g., Vol. 111, Suppl. 2, was a Special Issue with the topic "Sleep and > Epilepsy". These, very often, sponsored supplement issues are always sent > to all subscribers, i.e., distributed freely (with no extra charges to the > subscribers), as they are (we think) of interest to everybody. > > I realize this is confusing for you librarians, but for production we have > to number this kind of issues. > > I trust that this information is useful to you. > With kind regards, > Mrs. Elly H. Tjoa > Associate Publishing Editor > Neuroscience Publ. Group > Elsevier Science Amsterdam