According to responses on another list, this was due to system
maintenance, and access to the journal in question has been restored.

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Assistant Librarian

John W. Dickhaut Library
Methodist Theological School in Ohio
3081 Columbus Pike
Delaware, Ohio  43015
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Good grief!  If it isn't one thing, it's another!
-- Linus van Pelt

Date:    Mon, 2 Aug 2010 12:08:24 -0500
From:    "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." <cwbailey@DIGITAL-SCHOLARSHIP.COM>
Subject: Univ. of Houston Libraries Delete Pioneering Open Access
Journal, The Public Access-Computer Systems Review

The University of Houston Libraries published one of the first open
access peer-reviewed journals published on the Internet, The Public
Access-Computer Systems Review.
Established in 1989, the journal's last issue was published in 1998. It
had over 4.2 million Gopher or Web file requests from January 1994
through December 2006.

Today, the University of Houston Libraries have deleted this open access
journal from their website. The only remnant of the digital version of
the journal is an online catalog record, whose link is inoperative. The
current Dean of the University of Houston Libraries, Dana C. Rooks,
served as an editor of the journal.

The University of Houston Libraries have also deleted the Scholarly
Electronic Publishing Bibliography archive. The UH Libraries published
this updated digital book from 1996 through 2006. The only remnant of
the of the digital book is an online catalog record, whose link is
inoperative. From October 1996 through December 2006, this digital book
had over 6.6 million Web file requests.

The University of Houston Libraries have also deleted Public-Access
Computer Systems News. The UH Libraries published this digital
newsletter from 1990 though 1995.
There is no catalog record for this newsletter. Both Dean Dana Rooks and
Senior Associate Dean Linda Thompson were editors of this newsletter.

The University of Houston Libraries have also deleted the home pages for
two early Internet discussion lists, PACS-L and PACS-P.

Preliminary searching in Google suggests that, in spite of a copyright
agreement that permitted libraries from freely archiving The Public
Access-Computer Systems Review, none have done so. Perhaps they expected
that the University of Houston Libraries would perpetually archive a
digital journal that they published.

Although there appears to be no library archive of the The Public
Access-Computer Systems Review, print versions of volumes 1-5 are still
available in some libraries. These print versions were published by LITA
to meet the needs of readers with limited Internet access. A full
archive of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, including
post-UH versions, is available on Digital Scholarship
(http://digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html), and it will remain so
for as long as that website is functional.

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Best Regards,
Charles

Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Publisher, Digital Scholarship
http://digital-scholarship.org/

A Look Back at 21 Years as an Open Access Publisher
http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/21/21years.htm