3 messages:

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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 13:03:43 -0400
From: Beverly Butler <bbutler@VMS1.CC.UOP.EDU>
Subject: Re: No. of Issues per Vol. -- Query from Publisher (Richard Gedye)

I am less concerned about how many issues you publish in a volume than I am
about a change.  Most
changes in issues per volume are not clearly indicated to the subscribing
libraries, and can really create
some problems.  So which ever you decide, please make it clear to those of
us responsible for maintaining
subscriptions.    Thanks!

At 08:54 AM 4/16/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:10:12 +0100
>From: GEDYE Richard <GEDYER@OUP.CO.UK>
>Subject: Is there an optimum number of issues in a volume?
>
>I wonder if I could turn to SERIALST readers for a small piece of advice.
>
>One of our journals is published in annual volumes of 12 monthly issues. Each
>issue has approximately 240 pages.
>
>The editor is now asking that from 1999 we should publish the 12 issues as 2
>volumes of 6 issues rather than one volume of 12 issues. Our inclination is to
>stick with the status quo. But what do you think? Would 2 volumes of 6 issues
>be more convenient? Or would the change just add yet another unwelcome piece of
>extra administration?
>
>Any views would be most helpful.
>
>Richard Gedye
>
>===========================
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>Journals Marketing Director
>Oxford University Press
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>Oxford
>OX2 6DP
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>
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>
Beverly Butler
McGeorge School of Law Library
3282 - 5th Avenue
Sacramento, CA  95817
916-739-7220
bbutler@uop.edu

"Between stimulus and response is the space for individual choice."

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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:33:05 -0400
From: "Geraldine H. Wescott" <wescott@LYCO.LYCOMING.EDU>
Subject: Re: No. of Issues per Vol. -- Query from Publisher (Richard Gedye)

'often wrong, but never in doubt' is my motto...and on that note, I would
vote for one vol/year.

I don't understand the editor's rationale for changing to 2/year.

I think this would be an interesting discussion, particularly having a
publisher in on it.

Gerre

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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:58:18 -0400
From: Susan Davis <unlsdb@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>
Subject: Re: No. of Issues per Vol. -- Query from Publisher (Richard Gedye)

I find this question quite interesting, why does the editor want to make
this change?  It doesn't seem to add anything to the publication--same
number of issues and presumably the same number of pages.

However, going from one volume of 12 issues to two volumes of 6 issues is
not the biggest headache we serials acquisitions folks have ever
encountered.  Our library binds based on thickness, so if the 12 issues
are 8 inches thick, we'd bind in 4 parts.

What would be really troublesome to all of us is if the pricing changed
from a yearly charge to a per volume charge  (as some publishers bill).
Then we'd be paying twice as much for the same amount of material which
would definitely cause a lot of consternation in library land.

Good luck with your decision, and if you do change numbering be sure to
let the subscription agents and libraries know about it.

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Susan Davis
Head, Periodicals
Central Technical Services
University at Buffalo
Lockwood Library Bldg.
Buffalo, NY  14260-2200
(716) 645-2784
(716) 645-5955 fax
unlsdb@acsu.buffalo.edu

The views expressed above are my own and do not necessarily reflect those
of my institution.