> But I want to point out that, generally, our online
> journal content is available to users 24/7 from wherever they have internet
> access.  Our print journal content is available to them only when the library
> is open, and they then still have to trek to the library and find the stuff
> they are looking for.

Because I know you guys aren't tired of hearing from me yet, heh heh, let me
just chime in quickly and amplify Buddy's point.  I think we all tend to
assume that print is more reliable than online, because it doesn't (usually)
disappear spontaneously the way online access can.  But it's easy to forget
that print does go "down" regularly, and constantly.  If your library is
open 18 hours a day, 7 days per week, then your print collection has a 25%
downtime rate -- which we would never tolerate in an online product.

Of course, that doesn't take into account the fact that print _does_
sometimes disappear spontaneously, nor the fact that if another patrons gets
to the print copy before you, then access to that copy is "down" for you
just as effectively as if the library were closed.

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Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dir. for Scholarly Resources & Collections
Marriott Library
Univ. of Utah
rick.anderson@utah.edu
(801) 721-1687