Re: JSTOR moving wall/to bind or not to bind Carol Morse 03 Mar 2004 21:57 UTC
We don't get JStor yet, but we do have a "5-year Plan" where we keep 5 years of certain titles and discard the 6th year back. We get the microfiche, but people have the convenience of print for 5 years. We do not bind any of these; we put them in shelf files. It would be a waste of money to bind. If we were ever to subscribe to JStor, we would stop binding most of the titles. We would look at the list first. Carol Morse *********************************************** Address: Walla Walla College Library Periodicals Dept. 104 S. College Ave. College Place, WA 99324-1159 Carol Morse Serials Librarian morsca@wwc.edu 509) 527-2684; fax 509) 527-2001 ************************************************** >>> JBarnett@UTSA.EDU 3/3/2004 1:19:31 PM >>> Hi all, You probably have addressed this issue before; if there is an archive that I may search to see responses, please feel free to direct me to it. And please feel free to respond to me directly, off-list. Our library subscribes to several JSTOR electronic collections. As you know, for many of the journals in these collections, there is a moving wall of two or more years (often four or more), during which current issues are embargoed. That is to say, there may be a gap of several years between when a journal is published and when it appears in JSTOR. Our library subscribes to a number of print journals as well, some of which eventually appear in JSTOR. Heretofore, we've been of mixed minds--in some cases, we automatically bind these journals, even when they appear in JSTOR later on; in other cases, we keep these titles in limited retention in our current periodicals area until they appear in JSTOR. We are inconsistent with this practice. In some cases, we have journals in current periodicals that are more than four years old; in other cases, we bind within a year or so of publication, regardless of when the title appears in JSTOR. Assuming that no one else is necessarily being consistent and assuming that when it comes to information, nothing much is consistent, anyway, I would be interested in hearing from other librarians who have dealt with or are dealing with this issue. In our present situation, we have left well enough alone for as long as we've been able to. However, due to space restrictions, we are moving many of our JSTOR titles to remote storage. I'm hesitant to have to revisit this project in five or ten years because we've bound a whole new set of journals to the stacks, which are now in JSTOR. If any of you have any guidelines or observations you would like to share, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you. Thank you. John Barnett John Barnett Head, Collection Development University of Texas at San Antonio Library 6900 North Loop 1604 West San Antonio, Texas 78249-0671 (voicemail) 210.458.4575 (fax) 210.458.4577 (email) <jbarnett@utsa.edu> or <librarycolldev@utsa.edu> (url) <http://www.lib.utsa.edu>