At 03:13 PM 7/7/2008, you wrote:
>Please reply directly to Eleanor <cookei@appstate.edu>, not to Serialst.
>Thanks. - ed.
>
>SUBJECT:  Do you have an original of v.3 1920 of Journal of
>experimental psychology?

I'll see if I have one and reply directly to the sender if I do.
But I wanted to comment on this question, which isn't so
strange to me at all.  We get it once a year or so.

Whenever we've gotten this question, it always seems
to come from a lawyer.  (They SAY they're lawyers.)
Presumably, they want to prove, in a lawsuit, that some
bit of medical info was already available to the defendant,
so that they "should've known better."  Or, the reverse:
that since the information wasn't yet disseminated, even
though it was published, the defendant couldn't possibly
have "known better" and is therefore blameless.

Just guessing, but it seems like a reasonable theory.  SW

>Dear Serialist colleagues,
>
>A professor here at App State is doing some research that involves a
>classical experiment that was first conducted shortly after WW I and he
>has an intriguing question for which he needs an answer. He is trying to
>determine when v.3, no.1, 1920 of the Journal of Experiemental
>Psychology
>was <actually received> by subscribers. We KNOW that v.3, issue 1 was
><issued> with the date of Feb. 1920.  However, his theory is that the
>journal was actually received by people quite a bit later, since the
>publication was suspended during the war.  The only way of gathering
>proof of this is to examine a physical copy of this issue as it was
>received.  We all know that there could property stamps or accession
>marks on original pieces.  Unfortunately, App State's run from this
>period is a reprint version, so we can't help him.
>
>If your library happens to have an original edition with such markings,
>and you don't mind taking a field trip to the compact storage unit or
>the basement
>stacks or where ever this might be kept and then letting me know if you
>find such evidence, it would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Who says print is dead?  Sometimes the artifact has interesting value we
>don't anticipate!
>Thanks to any and all who can help with this.
>
>Sincerely,
>Eleanor Cook
>
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>
>Eleanor I. Cook
>Professor & Intellectual Property
>& Copyright Librarian
>Belk Library, ASU Box 32026
>Appalachian State University
>Boone, NC 28608-2026
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>828-262-2773 (fax)
>cookei@appstate.edu
>

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