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Subject: Lists of core periodicals - Summary
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14:03:47 -0500
From: Liu Liu <liuliu@usa.com>

Hi,

Thank you very much for people who have responded to my
question regarding core lists of periodicals.  Here is the
summary:

1. Books recommended include:  Katz's Magazines for
Libraries (Bowker), Brandon-Hill list for nursing, and Baker
Library Core List, and a Libraries Unlimited series of books
on sources for several subject areas.

2. Steve Black <blacks@MAIL.STROSE.EDU> has come up with a
tentative core list for education at the College of Saint
Rose.  The periodicals are in descending order based on a
formula of faculty opinion, appearance in Magazines for
Libraries, impact factor as listed in Journal Citation
Reports and cost per use  Here it is:

Review of Educational Research
Phi Delta Kappan
Child Development
Reading Teacher
Reading Research Quarterly
Cognitive Psychology
Harvard Educational Review
Educational Leadership
Journal of Educational Psychology
Elementary School Journal
American Educational Research Journal
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied
Disciplines
Journal of Educational Research
Sociology of Education
Adolescence
School Psychology Review
Journal of Vocational Behavior
Journal of Clinical Psychology
Journal of Counseling Psychology
Instructor
Language Learning
Journal of Child Language
Journal of Teacher Education
Teachers College Record
Educational Psychologist
Journal of Adolescence
Journal of Educational Measurement
Journal of Higher Education
British Journal of Educational Psychology
Counseling Psychologist
Psychology in the Schools
Journal of Counseling and Development
Teaching Pre-K - 8
Child Welfare
Journal of Reading
Comparative Education Review
Young Children
Journal of Youth & Adolescence
Educational & Psychological Measurement
Journal of Experimental Education
Educational Administration Quarterly
American Journal of Education
Journal of Creative Behavior
Gifted Child Quarterly
Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development
NASSP Bulletin
Futurist
Education Digest
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
Journal of Drug Education
Elementary School Guidance & Counseling
Contemporary Education
Journal of Negro Education
Middle School Journal
Psychological Record
Contemporary Educational Psychology
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy
Childhood Education
Gifted Child Today Magazine
School Counselor
Reading Improvement
Reading Research & Instruction
Journal of School Health
Educational Researcher
Principal
College Student Journal
Journal of Early Intervention
Journal of Alcohol & Drug Education
Counselor Education & Supervision
Children Today
Journal of Early Adolescence
Educational Forum
Community College Journal
Childrens Literature in Education
Teaching & Teacher Education
American Educator

3. Methods recommended include:
a. Jane Thompson <thompsjl@ucmail.uc.edu>
Get the faculty members to write down their 5 or 10 journal
titles that are essential to their work/researches.  Get an
idea of how much that would cost and get appointments with
key people in the departments.

b. Karen Warren <karen.warren@vuw.ac.nz>
Her library worked out "A" category journals as core
journals to the courses, "B" journals with high value, and
"C" may have been useful with links to other subject fields.

c. Ian Woodward <iwoodward@MAIL.COLGATE.EDU>
1) Do a search of the publications of the faulty on Web of
Science and the affiliated hard-copy citators, and compile a
list of the serial publications that they have cited.
Inspect their books as well.

2) Request reports from inter-library loan staff on what
titles have been requested.

3) Compile a general list and subject-specific lists of
periodicals rank-ordered according to the ratio of price to
recorded use.  Send a report with figures for price and
recorded use per annum to departments, and in return request
for their wish lists and the lists of recommended
cancellations.

4) Make use of Journal Citation Reports on CD-ROM.  It lists
titles broken down by discipline which can then be
rank-ordered by the ISI impact factor.  One can then
identify publications with a high impact factor that are not
present in the library.  Also, consult Eugene Garfield's
articles on using the Journal Citation Report.

5) Interact with the faculty and present to them feasible
options and specify the constraints and necessary
trade-offs.

These suggestions are very helpful.  Again, thank you very
much.

Pauline Smith
liuliu@usa.com

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