Kevin M. Randall <kmr@nwu.edu> wrote:
>I have been noticing an increasing trend for journals to combine the last
>number of a volume with the first number of the next volume, and it is very
>disturbing.  Does anyone have any idea of how we can broadcast our extreme
>displeasure about this?

I find this annoying as well, but how is it our business to criticize this?
It makes sense to howl about bad title changes, because these are bad for
everybody in the end, including publishers and subscribers. But end of year
combined issues are for the most part awkward only to us. And by far the
biggest reason they are awkward is that our automated prediction systems
aren't designed to handle them, and that's nobody's trouble but ours.
Patrons might find such citations irritating enough to just skip sometimes,
but this isn't going to hurt a major popular weekly.

Tim Lawrence                            Northern Kentucky University
Serials Assistant                       Steely Library Serials/Periodicals
lawrencet@nku.edu