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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:20:40 -0400
From: David Goodman <dgoodman@Princeton.EDU>
Subject: Re: Cost per title... (2 messages)

Peter, the two choices of
> plunge ahead into aggregated journal
> bundles or dig our heels into sticking with individual print subscriptions??

are not the only possibilities. We can (and in my opinion should) continue
getting individual electronic subscriptions to the titles our patrons need.
And I'm sure a publisher would be glad to sell a library an aggregated bundle
of all the print they produce. (Don't laugh--it's no sillier than selling a
library all the electronic. Some of the scientific societies have been selling
such print  packages for years and still continue to. A few even still insist
you take the whole group in paper if you want it in electronic. Now's the
place to laugh.

> ----------(1)
> From ppicerno@choctaw.astate.edu Fri Oct 20 16:37:26 2000
> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:11:02 -0500
> From: Peter Picerno <ppicerno@choctaw.astate.edu>
> Subject: Re: Cost per title of print journals versus journals in
>       electronic da tabases... (Jennifer Sweeney)
>
> Jennifer brings up some interesting points and I guess this whole thread
> points to the need for some consideration and responsible reasarch in this
> area. For example, in what ways are e-journals not replacements for print,
> and vice-versa? Besides such obvious things as archiving (be it electronic
> or print), maleability of text (more easily achieved in electronic -- i.e.,
> one could conceivably download a text for a quote directly into a research
> paper), access (a no-brainer, or is it, really??) what are some of the
> unique properties of each format and their attendant environments which need
> to be considered before we either plunge ahead into aggregated journal
> bundles or dig our heels into sticking with individual print subscriptions??
> Peter Picerno