Re: No. of Issues per Vol. -- Query from Publisher (4 messages) ERCELAA@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu 16 Apr 1998 17:04 UTC
4 messages: 1)_____ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 11:02:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Charles F. Tremper" <cftrempe@library.syr.edu> Subject: Re: No. of Issues per Vol. -- Query from Publisher (Richard Gedy Your inclination is good: leave well enough alone. Original message: Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:10:12 +0100 From: GEDYE Richard <GEDYER@OUP.CO.UK> Subject: Is there an optimum number of issues in a volume? I wonder if I could turn to SERIALST readers for a small piece of advice. One of our journals is published in annual volumes of 12 monthly issues. Each issue has approximately 240 pages. The editor is now asking that from 1999 we should publish the 12 issues as 2 volumes of 6 issues rather than one volume of 12 issues. Our inclination is to stick with the status quo. But what do you think? Would 2 volumes of 6 issues be more convenient? Or would the change just add yet another unwelcome piece of extra administration? Any views would be most helpful. Richard Gedye =========================== Richard Gedye Journals Marketing Director Oxford University Press Great Clarendon Street Oxford OX2 6DP England Tel: +44 1865 267785 (direct) Fax: +44 1865 267835 E-mail: gedyer@oup.co.uk World Wide Web site: http://www.oup.co.uk/ =========================== Charles F. Tremper Head, Serials Unit and Serials Catalog Libn. Syracuse University Library Syracuse, N.Y. 13210 Phone: (315) 443-9775 Email: cftrempe@library.syr.edu ********************************************* Charles F. Tremper Head, Serials Unit and Serials Catalogue Libn. Bibliographic Services Dept. Syracuse University Library Syracuse, N.Y. 13244 telephone: (315) 443-9775 email: cftrempe@hawk.syr.edu 2)_____ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 11:05:51 -0400 From: Louise Pierce <lpierce@EAGLE.YCP.EDU> Subject: Re: No. of Issues per Vol. -- Query from Publisher (Richard Gedye) I appreciate your polling the listserv about this change in numbering. To me it makes no difference how many issues are in a volume. It's the changing from one scheme to another that creates headaches for us. Please advise your editor to leave well enough alone. Louise Pierce ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Louise Pierce Periodicals Specialist York College of Pennsylvania York, PA 17405-7199 (717)815-1224 lpierce@ycp.edu fax (717)849-1608 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3)______ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 11:06:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Borries <MSBBH@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> Subject: Re: No. of Issues per Vol. -- Query from Publisher (Richard Gedye) It would definitely "add yet another unwelcome piece of administration." And some confusion, although not as much as some journals. In the abstract, I see nothing to recommend one volume over two, or vice versa, except perhaps that the first is more customary, and will likely result in fewer citations going wrong (either the citation is really incorrect, or the reader looks in the wrong place). But when a journal has started publishing one way, and then changes, it increases the likelihood that citations will go wrong. Of course, it means added notes on the catalog record (and then the reader has to read the note). It can also cause confusion in claiming missing issues. Catalogers and, I suspect, readers would prefer consistency, not change. Michael S. Borries Cataloger, City University of New York 555 West 57th Street, 16th Floor New York, NY 10019 msbbh@cunyvm.cuny.edu (212) 541-0376 4)______ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 09:25:02 -0600 From: Michael Thompson <thompson@RESOURCENTER.COM> Subject: Re: No. of Issues per Vol. -- Query from Publisher (Richard Gedye) I know the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine do this. It's apparently related to the number of pages. Put all 12 of those large issues into a volume and it becomes kind of unwieldy. Creates a mass of numbers in citations as well. I don't know that this is their motivation, but it does seem like one possibility. ******Michael P. Thompson****** ****Director of Communications*** ***thompson@resourcenter.com***