Hello Shirley and all,

I think I may be able to adequately answer some of these legitimate concerns.

1. We have all experienced the differences in citation pages from the online to the print. The most drastic example I can think of was Gordon & Breach, which I believe Taylor & Francis purchased, though I will not swear to it.  I can only look at the current T & F online vs print, which I feel they have kept the same (within human error).  As to the citations, consider the archival print issue as 3 issues bound together.  Would it easier to think of it with the covers of the other issues bound in the archival print copy?  Not sure I have convinced anyone.

2.  In the 3 letters that I received from Taylor & Francis,  it was indicated, how many online issues there would be, how many archival print issues there would be, &  how frequently the archival print issues would be issued.  In one case they indicated the month (cover date?) the archival print issues would be published.  Our ILS systems can handle those frequency patterns and can be predicted as in any other title with estimated received dates.

I believe that T & F is trying out a plan to reduce the number of print runs, making it more cost effective to maintain the journals as we are used to seeing them, (trying to address librarians concerns over having perepetual access to what we paid for) and to decrease the lag time to the user.  Also I do not believe that their journals have "interim, pre-publication" of their papers on their web sites.  They put on their pages, the 'final' copy of the paper.

3.  If T&F does decide to unbundle the Print and Electronic, I am sure that they are responsible to either go back to the current historical pattern of Print & electronic publishing that they have been using OR some other plan that does not put the 'print only' customer at a disadvantage.

Just my thoughts.  Let's hear from others,

With Best Regards

John Lucas

Serials Librarian
University of Mississippi Medical Center
2500 North State St
Jackson, MS 39216-4505

(PH) (601) 984-1277
(FAX)  ( 601) 984-1262
JLUCAS@ROWLAND.UMSMED.EDU

>>> srais@LLU.EDU 1/17/2006 2:30 PM >>>
A couple of quick comments about possible effects of this:

1) How will the journals be cited in the abstracts & indexes in which
they appear?  How will print volumes & issues correspond to the online
version?  For example, if a journal is indexed in Medline, will the
citation reflect the volume/Issue/pagination of the online or the print
issues?

2) Will the frequency of the "archival" print volumes be easily
verifiable so we can claim missing volumes in a timely way?

3) What will happen if T & F decides to unbundle print & electronic?  I
appreciate the fact that T & F continues to includes online with print,
but if this practice is discontinued then print subscribers will lose
out in getting current information.

Shirley Rais, Chair, Serials Dept.
Loma Linda University Libraries
11072 Anderson St.
Loma Linda, CA  92350-0001

Phone: (909) 558-4583
FAX: (909) 558-4919
Srais@llu.edu

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Ashleigh Bell
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 5:06 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Change in print frequency for selected T&F journals

Apologies in advance if this information is not relevant to you.

Dear Subscribers

I am writing to advise that from 2006 selected Taylor & Francis Group
journals will be published online, then followed by one or more archival
print copies containing the issues published online during that period
of time.

T&F hopes this change in publishing will bring benefits to both authors
and readers by reducing the time between the submission and publication
of articles.

Please see below for a list of the journals affected:

Analytical Letters, 15 online issues and 5 print issues per volume.
Chemical Engineering Communications, 12 online issues and 4 print issues
per volume.
Combustion Science & Technology, 12 online issues and 4 print issues per
volume.
Communications in Partial Differential Equations, 12 online issues and 4
print issues per volume.
Drying Technology, 12 online issues and 4 print issues per volume.
Energy Sources Part A: Recovery, Utilization and Environmental Effects,
16 online issues and 4 print issues per volume.
Energy Sources Part B: Energy, Ecomonics & Planning, 4 online issues and
1 print issue per volume.
Geomicrobiology Journal, 8 online issues and 2 print issues per volume.
Inhalation Toxicology, 14 online issues and 4 print issues per volume.
International Journal of Polymeric Materials, 12 online issues and 4
print issues per volume.
Journal of Adhesion, 12 online issues and 4 print issues per volume.
Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry, 9 online issues and 3 print issues
per volume.
Journal of Liquid Chromatography and Related Technologies, 20 online
issues and 5 print issues per volume.
Journal of Toxicology & Environmental Health Part A: Current Issues, 24
online issues and 12 print issues per volume.
Journal of Toxicology & Environmental Health Part B: Critical Reviews, 6
online issues and 3 print issues per volume.
Materials & Manufacturing Processes, 8 online issues and 4 print issues
per volume.
Pediatric Hematology & Oncology, 8 online issues and 2 print issues per
volume.
Separation & Purification Reviews, 4 online issues and 2 print issues
per volume.
Soft Materials, 4 online issues and 1 print issue per volume.
Statistics - Theory & Methods, 12 online issues and 4 print issues per
volume.
Synthetic Communications, 24 online issues and 8 print issues per
volume.
Technology & Engineering, 12 online issues and 4 print issues per
volume.
Ultrastructural Pathology, 6 online issues and 2 print issues per
volume.

Please update your records and let me know if you have any questions.

Best wishes

Ashleigh

Ashleigh Bell
Head of Journals Sales

Office: +44 (0)207 017 6350
Mobile: +44 (0)7764 984581
Fax: +44 (0)207 017 6725
Ashleigh.Bell@tandf.co.uk

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