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This is to announce the availability of a new electronic serial index
called:

CITATIONS FOR SERIAL LITERATURE

Purpose:
 To identify literature related to the serials industry
 To disseminate this information in a timely manner
 To create an index with electronic searching capabilities

Scope:
 Complete table of contents (and abstracts when available) for:
  Serials Review
  Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues
 Selective table of contents for:
  Library Acquisitions : Practice and Theory
  College and Research Libraries

*Citations for serial literature* is an electronic serial which
publishes the table of contents and abstracts, when available, for
articles related to the serials industry.  It is not an electronic
discussion list.  Messages sent to the list will be received by the
editor but will not be passed on to subscribers.

The value of this electronic serial is in the creation of a database
of citations pertaining to the serials industry which can be used for
both current awareness and research.  The format of this database will
allow subscribers to take advantage of the electronic medium's speed
of information dissemination and searching capabilities.  Currently
this database includes table of contents for all issues of Newsletter
on Serials Pricing Issues (in CSL volume 1, no. 1-19), table of
contents and abstracts for Serials Review, volume 17, no. 4 (in CSL
volume 1, no. 19), and selective table of contents and abstracts for
Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory, volume 16, number 1 (in CSL
volume 1, no. 19).

It is the intention of the editor to expand the number of journals
included in this database.  Editors and publishers interested in
participating in this project should contact the editor at:
sercites@mitvma.mit.edu or mgeller@athena.mit.edu to discuss the possibility.

To subscribe to *Citations for serial literature*:
 BITNET:  send a one line message to sercites@mitvma that
         reads: sub sercites
 Internet: send an email message to:listserv@mitvma.mit.edu
  in the body of the message: sub sercites <your name>

*Citations for serial literature* is edited and published by Marilyn Geller.