Electronic Resources: Implications for Collection Management

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by  Owens, Genevieve

Electronic Resources:

Implications for

Collection Management
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Electronic R esources:

Implications

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Electronic resources : implications for collection management I Genevieve S. Owens, editor.
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Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 1-56024-824-6 (alk. paper)
I. Libraries-United States-Special collections-Databases. 2. Libraries and electronic pub­
lishing-United States. I. Owens, Genevieve S.
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INDEXING & ABSTRACTING
Contributions to this publication are selectively in­
dexed or abstracted in print, electronic, online, or
CD-ROM version(s) of the reference tools and in­
formation services listed below. This list is current as
of the copyright date of this publication. See the end
of this section for additional notes.
• CNPIEC Reference Guide: Chinese National Directory of
Foreign Periodicals, P.O. Box 88, Beijing, People's Republic
of China
• Combined Health Information Database (CHID), National
Institutes of Health, 3 Information Way, Bethesda, MO
20892-3580
• Current Awareness Bulletin, Association for Information
Management, Information House, 20-24 Old Street, London,
EC1V 9AP, England
• IBZ International Bibliography ofP eriodical Literature, Zeller
Verlag GmbH & Co., P.O.B. 1949, d-49009 Osnabrock,
Germany
• Index to Periodical Articles Related to Law, University of Texas,
727 East 26th Street, Austin, TX 78705
• Information Reports & Bibliographies, Science Associates
International, Inc., 6 Hastings Road, Marlboro, NJ 07746-1313
• Information Science Abstracts, Plenum Publishing Company,
233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013-1578
• Informed Librarian, The, Infosources Publishing, 140 Norma
Road, Teaneck, NJ 07666
(continued)
• INTERNET ACCESS (&additional n etworks) B ulletin B oard
for L ibraries ( "BUBL"), coverage o fi nformation resources
on INTRENET, JANET, and other networks.
• JANET X.29: UK.AC.BATH.BUBL or 00006012101300
• TELNET: BUBL.BATH.AC.UK or 138.38.32.45login 'bubl'
• Gopher: BUBL.BATH.AC.UK ( 138.32.32.45). Port 7070
• World Wide Web: http: I I www.bubl.bath.ac.uk./BUBLI
home.html
• NISSWAIS telnetniss.ac.uk (for t he NISS gateway)
The Andersonian Library, Curran Building, 101 St. James
Road, Glasgow G 4 ONS, Scotland
• Konyvtari F igyelo-Library R eview, National Szechenyi Library,
Centre for Library a nd Information Science, H-1827 . Budapest,
Hungary
• Library & I nformation S cience A bstracts ( LISA), Bowker-Saur
Limited, Maypole House, Maypole Road, East Grinstead,
West Sussex, RH19 1HH, England
• Library H i T ee~ News, Pierian Press, P.O. Box 1808, Ann A rbor,
MI 48106
• Library L iterature, T he H. W. Wilson Company, 950 University
Avenue, Bronx, NY 10452
• OT BibSys, American Occupational T herapy F oundation, P.O.
Box 31220, Rockville, MD 20824-1220
• PASCAL I nternational B ibliography T 205: Sciences d e
/'information Documentation, INISTICNRS-Service G estion
des Documents Primaires, 2, allee du Pare de Brabois,
F-54514 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, Cedex, France
• Referativnyi Zhurnal (Abstracts Journal o ft he Institute o f
Scientific I nformation oft he R epublic o fR ussia), T he
Institute of Scientific Information, Baltijskaja u l., 14, Moscow,
A-219, Republic of Russia
Book reviews are selectively excerpted by the Guide to Professional
Literature of the Journal of Academic Librarianship.
(continued)
.

SPECIAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES
related to special journal i ssues (separates)
and i ndexing I abstracting
O i ndexing/abstracting s ervices i n this list will also c over m aterial in any
"separate" that is co-published simultaneously with Haworth's spe­
cial thematic journal i ssue o r D ocuSerial. Indexing/abstracting u sually
covers material at the article/chapter level.
O monographic co-editions a re intended for either n on-subscribers or l i­
braries which intend to purchase a second copy for their circulating
collections.
O monographic co-editions are reported to all jobbers/wholesalers/ap­
proval plans. The source j ournal is listed as t he "series" to assist the
prevention of d uplicate purchasing in the same manner utilized for
books-in-series.
0 to facilitate user/access services all indexing/abstracting services are
encouraged t o u tilize t he c o-indexing e ntry n ote i ndicated a t t he b ottom
of the first page o f each article/chapter/contribution.
0 this is intended to assist a library user of any reference tool (whether
print, electronic, online, or C D-ROM) to locate the monographic ver­
sion if the library has p urchased this v ersion but n ot a subscription to
the source j ournal.
0 individual articles/chapters in any Haworth p ublication are also avail­
able through the Haworth Document D elivery Services (HDDS).
ABOUT THE E DITOR
Genevieve S . Owens is P rogram Manager for I nformation Resources
Selection at Bucknell University's Bertrand Library. She has pre­
viously b een a reference librarian a nd Head o f Collection D evelop­
ment at the University o f Missouri-St. Louis. She earned a BA in En­
glish from the University of K entucky and an MS in Library and
Information S cience from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham­
paign. Ms. Owens is active in the Association for Library Collections
and Technical S ervices, p articularly i ts L ibrary Materials P rice I ndex
Committee and C ollection Management a nd D evelopment Section.
She is currently working on t he Collection Management chapter o f
the Guide to Technical Services Resources Supplement.
Electronic Resources:

Implications for Collection Management

CONTENTS
Introduction 1
Genevieve S . Owens
Electronic Resources a nd B udgeting: Funding a t t he Edge 3
B. J. Johnston
Victoria Witte
Managing Electronic Resources: Public Service
Considerations i n a Technology Environment 17
Wilbur Stolt
Journal Accessibility Factor: An Examination of Serials
Value from the Standpoint o f Access and Delivery 29
Tim Collins
Beth H owell
U.S. Government D ocuments in t he Electronic Era:
Problems and P romise 41
Katrina Stierholz
Electronic Resources: A New Set of Questions
for R esource Sharing E fforts 57
Donald B. Simpson
Tradeoffs or N ot: The Pros and C ons o f the E lectronic
Library 65
Frederick C . Lynden