Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 18:44:18 +0200
From: Eliane Chaney <Eliane.Chaney@CERN.CH>
Subject: Re: Online serials (Monica Marra)

 Monica,

 Our Library is involved with High Energy Physics and related scientific
and technical subjects. Some 80 of our titles held in print are now
available online

> >1) Did you choose between the print version and the on line version or did
> you subscribe to both, whenever possible?
.... In all cases but one online, we subscribed to both. But nearly all
of the electronic versions of our titles are free with the subscription to
the print version.

> >2) If you subscribe to both, do you select only some titles or do you
> request the whole set of your subscriptions?
.... We request the whole set

> >3) Do you hold them locally (in the library) or do you provide a remote
> access?
.... we request the web access for all our site IP addresses or domain
name

> >4) Do you use the services of some intermediary for the unified management
> of on-line serials or do you make it youself? (If so, would you advice us
> to do the same?)
.... we do it ourselves whenever possible with the agencies as
intermediairies for the confirmation of the subscriptions to the printed
version

> >5) Is the on-line version of serials appreciated by users?
.... comments received were positive, but the printed version being still
available in the library, we have not heard negative ones

 In our field of interest subscription patterns for on-line editions will
probably change in the coming years but most of the publishers are
presently limiting their price policy to 1997.

Eliane Chaney
CERN Library, Periodicals section
1211 - GENEVA 23 - Switzerland
Phone 41 22 767 4483
Fax   41 22 782 8611
e-mail: eliane.chaney@cern.ch