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Subject: Classification of Journals
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 18:39:28 -0400
From: Albert Henderson <chessNIC@COMPUSERVE.COM>

on 25 Apr 2002 Makeswary Periasamy <makeswary@NLB.GOV.SG> wrote:

> Do libraries ever classify journals into "tier-one", "tier-two" &
> "tier-three"?
> How did this classification came about? Or are such classifications done
> by the publishing industry for journals?
> Does anyone know the answer?

        Publishers have lots of ways of 'classifying'
        journals, books, and other publications. This
        'tier' business is not any publishing industry
        classification scheme that I have ever seen.

Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
<70244.1532@compuserve.com>