Re: Print + Online Periodicals - anyone not check in print? Bill Cohen, Publisher, The Haworth Press, Inc. 05 Nov 2006 20:00 UTC
Haworth Press has been donating a subscription to each journal to the EBSCO Missing Copy Bank for years. I am double-checking to make sure we are still doing this. Bill Cohen, /Publisher & Editor-in-Chief/ The Haworth Press, Inc. www.HaworthPress.com charlesk@librarieshawaii.org wrote: > I don't know which subscription agent you use, but if you use EBSCO, you > could gather up all those clean print copies and send them to EBSCO for > inclusion into their missing copy bank. EBSCO will even reimburse your > postage, and you will have warm fuzzies for helping other libraries. > > Charles L. King > Serials Librarian > Hawaii State Library > 478 South King Street > Honolulu, HI 96813-2994 > http://www.state.hi.us/libraries/hsl/serials.html > > -----Original Message----- > From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum > [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Tian Zhang > Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 10:18 AM > To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU > Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Print + Online Periodicals - anyone not check in > print? > > > We have the same problems, too. Anyhow, we are still checking in the print > copies until I have the choice of having online only. But I do not bind all > these titles any more. > > Tian X. Zhang > > Serials Librarian > St. John's University Library > 8000 Utopia Parkway > Queens, NY 11439 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum > [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Pamela Contakos > Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 11:21 AM > To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU > Subject: [SERIALST] Print + Online Periodicals - anyone not check in print? > > > Hi everyone, > > We get a number of journals that we would really only like to get the > electronic version of but the publisher only offers the print + online > option. In terms of pricing that is usually fine with me since I tend not > to save that much by just going online and they are titles that we have to > have anyway. However, we are trying to reduce our physical collection of > periodicals both in terms of labor and supplies to process the journals and > in space that they take up. > > My question is, is anyone else in the position of getting a print + online > journal in which they don't want the print so they don't actually check in > and process the print for their collection? I am considering not adding the > print titles to the periodicals collection and just having the online > available but it seems so wasteful to just get rid of the print when it > comes in. Maybe I could contact the publisher and ask them not to send the > print? Any other ideas? Is any one else dealing with this? > >