David,

I agree with you about full text, but as you say, the undergraduates
leap on it. Yes, we do distinguish on our Home Web page between full
text and image. Icons indicate which journals contain image and which
are full text only. I feel those of us doing this are pioneers, and
better methods will surface in the future. I agree with Buddy that we
should insist that the vendors look beyond tomorrow and give us a
product that does not involve copying by hand from one manuscript to
the other. Hello electronic Renaissance; goodbye Dark Ages!

Jane Prokesh
Serials Cataloger
University of Texas at Dallas
x2962
<jprokesh@UTDALLAS.EDU>

On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 17:14:04 -0400 David Goodman
<dgoodman@PHOENIX.PRINCETON.EDU> wrote:

> Proquest and Ebsco now generally offer full versions of many of their
> titles, including illustrations. Lexis doesn't.
> Are you indicating this in some way?
> I, personally, consider the words without the figures to be perhaps better
> than nothing, but not at all good enough, at least in the sciences and
> much of the social sciences. We will include the true page image Proquest
> titles when we find someone to do it, but would never include the others.
> How would you do it: journal X without the data?  yes, I know the
> undergrads will use even that, but should they be encouraged to?
>
>  David Goodman, Princeton University Biology
> Library             dgoodman@princeton.edu          609-258-3235