I am not sure I understand what you mean by amateurish research.  As
previously noted it has huge research potential in terms of fashion,
fashion design, and definitely pop culture.  Other areas of research
might be marketing, journalism, photography, art, gender and women's
studies, history, psychology, etc.

If Time Warner has elected to change their policy where was the
notification?  I am constantly bombarded with letters and emails
explaining changes in terms of subscriptions and do not recall seeing
anything either from EBSCO or from Time Warner indicating this change.

It seems wrong, definitely very wrong for them to have made this
decision.  It also seems obvious that this was a decision made purely
for profit.  Unfortunately for Time Warner, it appears to be a new form
of publisher censorship.

I think when we subscribed or renewed our subscriptions to this
publication it was under the assumption that we would receive all the
issues published.  Time Warner has noted that they did not send this
particular issue to institutions/organizations that use a subscription
management service and that this is a new policy for them, but have they
provided a reason for the change?  I think we need to push them to state
explicitly why they did this.  It should add fuel to the fire.

Susan E. Thomas
Head of Collection Development
Schurz Library
Indiana University South Bend
(574) 520-5500
suethoma@iusb.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Ian Woodward
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:05 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Sports Illustrated policy

I can imagine amateurish research using the swimsuit issue, somewhere in
the same region referred to in the spam that greets me every morning.
IW

I.  Woodward
Serials Office
Colgate University Libraries
Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology
13 Oak Drive
Hamilton, N.Y. 13346
Ph.:   315-228-7306
Fax:   315-228-7029

-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Kevin M. Randall
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 5:40 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Sports Illustrated policy

The swimsuit issue can have a legitimate research purpose in many
libraries.  (And no, I am not in the least trying to be funny or
sarcastic.)  The more this saga goes on, the more clear it does seem
that
it's a sales ploy by the publisher.

Kevin M. Randall
Head of Serials Cataloging
Northwestern University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL  60208-2300
email: kmr@northwestern.edu
phone: (847) 491-2939
fax:   (847) 491-4345

At 12:53 PM 3/7/2007, Ian Woodward wrote:
> >>--I bet  that corporate is afraid that if students can look at the
>issue in
>libraries, they won't buy their own copy.  It's all about money.
That's
>
>my cynical side, perhaps.<<
>
>Were that the case, the publisher would be loathe to honor any
>institutional subscriptions.  One might also suspect that the purposes
>to which the Swimsuit issue is put would render a library subscription
a
>poor substitute for a personal copy.
>
>IW
>
>I.  Woodward
>Serials Office
>Colgate University Libraries
>Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology
>13 Oak Drive
>Hamilton, N.Y. 13346
>Ph.:   315-228-7306
>Fax:   315-228-7029