Ann,
     Great Idea!  I hope that you are deluged with responses;  I
also hope that most of the responses are more clear-cut than mine
can be (but I doubt it).

                             SURVEY

a.   Purchase only the individual specialty journals (hard-
copy)?

     If we currently subscribe to the individual specialty
journals, we would continue this option.  However, we have
several very specialized departments on campus - for example, a
cardiac rehabilitation program but no medicine nor nursing
programs.  We might, particularly in these tight fiscal times,
subscribe to only some of the individual specialty journals.

b.   Subscribe only to the CD-ROM version of the consolidated
journal?

     If we currently subscribe to the consolidated journal AND if
back files are also available at a very reasonable price, we
would consider this option.  Major considerations would be price,
hardware compatibility, ownership issues (these would have to
belong to us, not like some indexes I could mention), copyright
issues (could they be placed on a campuswide system, restrictions
to number of users, what users, etc.), and price.  (Note that
price is listed twice among the major considerations.)

c.   Purchase the individual specialty journals in hard copy
and subscribe to the consolidated journal on CD-ROM?

     I can't currently imagine following this scenario unless the
journal(s) have been permantently retained on microform and
wouldn't be in the future.

d.   Other:

     Price, price, price.  Issues mentioned under section b.
Perhaps most importantly would be the available formats for the
entire run of this title.  There were horror stories here when I
arrived of students having to look in FIVE separate locations to
find the complete run of one title (Current, Bound, Microfilm,
Microfiche, and Microcard).  Although I've managed to simplify
the duplication of formats for the worst offenders, A format
simplification project to clean up the rest is still in the
offing.  I don't want to repeat this mistake for future users.
If the title will be available on CD-ROM, make ALL of it
available through CD-ROM.