I agree that T & F made every effort to inform the serials community of
their intention to combine the print archival issues.

 I adjusted my checkin records to reflect the new print schedule for the
titles to which we subscribe.  My major concern is that, in my institution,
this type of subscription (print plus electronic) is considered "free with
print" and our policy is to not set up access.  This means that we do not
add the url link to our catalog nor do we add the title to our A-Z list.
Therefore, our patrons do not know that we have access to the online
version when they are looking for the Jan. issue in Jan..  For a monthly
publication, the Jan., Feb. and Mar. issues are not available in print
until the end of Mar.   Fortunately, we only subscribe to a handful of the
titles affected by this new schedule, but my fear is that this is the
beginning of a trend.  As someone else has already stated, T & F will
probably add more titles in the future and other publishers will soon begin
to follow suit.   Shortly after the T & F announcement, I queried this list
to ask how others are handling the electronic access issue with the hopes
of convincing the "powers that be" at this institution that this should be
an exception to the rule.  I posted the summary of responses on 3/14/06.

The new delayed publication of print issues may not be much of a problem
for some academic libraries that have already or will soon rely on
electronic access instead of print.  Many academic libraries have even
(gasp!) discontinued checkins for print, so this shouldn't affect them
either.  But as a public research library, we are obligated by our mission
statement to archive the print for eternity.  Therefore, we must continue
to checkin, claim, and bind our print issues.

 I spoke to Asheigh Bell at the T & F exhibit booth in New Orleans during
ALA last month and she told me she had gotten no negative feed back so far.
I'm not sure if she subscribes to this list, or just used the list to post
her announcement about the publication change.  But anyone who has
complaints or comments about this new publication model should contact her
directly at: Ashleigh.Bell@TANDF.CO.UK

J. Shore wrote:
I think we're leaning a little heavy on T & F here. They
did announce these changes here on Serialst by means of a
message from Ashleigh Bell with Subject: Change in print
frequency for selected T&F journals, posted to this
discussion list on 1/17/06. That announcement was followed
by some back and forth that included links to
http://www.tandf.co.uk/libsite/print_less.pdf
The pdf lists the titles and provided information ahead of
time on which online issues were going to be combined into
which print issues.

Virginia Taffurelli
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The New York Public Library
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