Re: Taylor & Francis, Haworth, and pages per volume
William Cohen 14 Jul 2006 16:13 UTC
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unlsdb@BUFFALO.EDU wrote:
> Librarians have been concerned about stated publication patterns not
> matching actual production for many years. I refer you to this article
> published by Haworth Press. Unfortunately it has not been digitized
> yet so you'll need to consult the printed journal.
>
> K.C.Garg and R.K. Dua "A plea for the rationalizing of the publication
> schedules of periodicals," Serials Librarian 9, no. 4 (1985): p.89-97.
>
> I'll quote the abstract:
>
> This paper describes various types of publication schedule of
> periodicals, and points out problems caused for librarians by
> inconsistency and unpredictable publication schedules. Suggestions are
> made concerning the standardizing of publication schedules.
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>
> Let me cast my memory back to 1985. I think there were maybe 1 or 2
> check in systems that had any sort of predicative check in module.
> OCLC's Serials Control Subsystem did, since I had used it. I am not
> sure if Faxon's MicroLinx was out then or if their SC10 product had
> it. So we were mainly talking about manual check in.
>
> Amazing how these nagging issues never seem to completely resolve
> themselves. Of course, we don't exactly live in a perfect world either.
>
> Susan
>
> Susan Davis
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> University at Buffalo (SUNY)
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