AGAINST THE GRAIN
v.17 # 6 December 2005 - January 2006 © Katina Strauch

Cancellation of Print Journals for Electronic Versions

	Rumors	1
	From Your Editor	6
	Letters to the Editor	6
	Deadlines	6
	Guest Editors, Cris Ferguson (Furman University) and Ajaye Bloomstone (Louisiana State University)
	Cancellation of Print Journals In The Electronic Era: A Case Study Xiaoli Li and Carolyn Kopper — The Health Sciences Libraries at the University of California, Davis recently conducted their latest large cancellation	1
	Going Online-Only with Journal Content: American University Library Takes the Plunge Claire T. Dygert — Using a publisher by publisher approach to going online only worked for American University.	22
	Print vs. Electronic Redux Maha Kumaran and Dawn Bassett — The advantages and disadvantages of electronic vs. print formats continue to be complex and challenging.	26
	Tell Me One More Time:Why Is It We’re Going Electronic? Rick Anderson — Rick focuses on the reasons why it	34
	When Can Subscriptions Become Electronic-Only? - Developing Guidelines for Decision Making Kristen DeVoe — Cancellation of print titles that are also received electronically is an activity that should be undertaken with the utmost	37
	Electronic Journal Subscriptions: The Agent’s Perspective Tina Feick and Shawn Herman — Acquiring, accessing and managing information is increasingly complex	42
	Vendors Begin to Address the Needs of Community College Libraries James A. Buczynski — Acquiring online access to the same print holdings is proving elusive. The business models employed by publishers, in general, do not address the needs of community college libraries, says our author.	45
	Op Ed - Little Red Herrings - Giving Thanks Mark Herring — Spend a few moments looking at what we all have to be thankful for, even joyous about. All too often the quotidian cares of life weigh us down unceremoniously, and we forget that we have much to be thankful for.	50
	Back Talk (pdf) Tony Ferguson — OCLC Report - December 2005 was a momentous month for the information world. And Tony says the most important information related event was OCLC’s release of its Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources.	86
	Gary Rautenstrauch and Philip Blackwell Katina Strauch —	51
	A.K. Peters Richard Abel —	52
	Xiaoli Li	18
	Carolyn Kopper	20
	Maha Kumaran	28
	Dawn Bassett	30
	Kristen DeVoe	38
	Tina Feick	44
	James Buczynski	47
	Barbara Blummer	66
	From the Reference Desk Reviews of Reference Titles by Tom Gilson — Black Women in America; Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture; and Encyclopedia of Early Cinema are just a few of the titles reviewed this month.	54
	Book Reviews Monographic Musings by Debbie Vaughn — This month, explore the traits of authors and gamers.	56
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch, and Jack Montgomery
	Legally Speaking: Creating a Level Playing Field in the WIPO The Chilean Proposal to Standardize Library Copyright Exceptions Worldwide by Bryan Carson — On October 28, 2004, the Chilean government made one of the most sweeping proposals for international copyright protection in years.	59
	Questions and Answers - Copyright Column Laura Gasaway — Questions and Answers galore! For interlibrary loan purposes, does a library own an embargoed journal?	61
	Cases of Note Bruce Strauch — Straightforward Termination Rights and Ka-Zaa Pirates.	62
	From the University Presses Peter Givler — The first of a regular series of new columns focuses on “Books for Understanding,” a topical, online bibliography of books published by members of the American	64
	Biz of Acq Barbara Blummer — Librarians rather than IT people have often been leaders in promoting open access publishing and institutional archiving.	65
	And They Were There Reports of Meetings by Sever Bordeianu — Special Library Association 2005 Annual Conference reported by Ramune Kubilius and the 14th Annual North Carolina Serials Conference reported by Joyce Tenney.	68
	Case Studies in Collection and Technical Services by Anne Langley — Case Study Two: The Case of the Temperamental Bibliographer.	83
	Issues in Vendor Library Relations Bob Nardini — Last October, the Janus Conference on Research Library Collections spent the better part of three days discussing what the next generation of collection development would look like.	71
	Group Therapy Beth Bernhardt — Scopus and Web of Science	73
	Bet You Missed It by Pamela Rose — What do Sony BMG and Ebay have in commor? Read about it here.	75
	Occasional Rambles in the World of the Book by Richard Abel — — A new column!	84
	Something To Think About?; Winter Musings Mary Tinker Massey — It’s winter again and Mary is recapping last year and getting a feel for her new projects to come.	85
	International Dateline eBook: The New Serial? by Peter T Shepherd — This was the intriguing title of a very timely and well-attended seminar organized by the United Kingdom Serials Group (UKSG) chaired by Hazel Woodward of Cranfield University.	76
	Webworthy Pamela Rose — Unique and interesting Websites organized by broad subject area.	58
	Innovations Affecting Us Kristen DeVoe — One approach to organizing electronic information is a quickly growing phenomenon called social bookmarking.	77
	Devil’s Advocate Bob Molyneux — Public Library Trends.	79
	IMHBCO (pdf) Rick Anderson — Three Kinds of “Research” and Two Kinds of Researcher. What do we mean when we say “research?”	80
	I Hear the Train A Comin’ by Greg Tananbaum — With this column, Greg takes on the scholarly monograph. Once a mainstay in the academic library, the monograph has been in retreat over the last several decades.	81
	2006 Charleston Conference Call For Papers, Ideas, Conference Themes, Panels, Debates, Diatribes, Speakers, Preconferences, etc. ...	49
	Adventures in Librarianship Self Improvement by Ned Kraft — Welcome to the class on Self Improvement for Librarians.	63