Collections at risk: Revisiting serial cancellations in academic libraries

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 351-364

  Chrzastowski, Tina E ^a   Schmidt, Karen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 0030518168     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl_57_04_351     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Tina E. Chrzastowski and Karen A. Schmidt, "Surveying the Damage: Academic Library Serial Cancellations 1987-88 through 1989-90," College and Research Libraries 54, no. 2 (Mar. 1993): 93-102.
2. Ibid.
3. Association of Research Libraries, ARL Statistics 1990-91 and ARL Statistics 1991-92 (Washington, D.C.: ARL, 1992, 1993).
4. Chrzastowski and Schmidt, "Surveying the Damage," 95 (table 1).
5. Ibid.
6. Kathryn Hammell Carpenter and Adrian W. Alexander, "Periodical Price Index 1992," Library Journal 117 (Apr. 15, 1992): 55-62.
7. This conclusion was also reached by Walt Crawford and Michael Gorman in Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness, & Reality (Chicago: ALA, 1995), chapter 9, especially pp. 145-47.
8. The term impact factor refers to the ratio between citations and citable items published. For more information, see the introductory material to Journal Citation Reports (ISI publishers) or see Eugene Garfield, "Citation Analysis As a Tool in Journal Evaluation," Science 178 (1972): 471-79.
9. The term impact factor refers to the ratio between citations and citable items published. For more information, see the introductory material to Journal Citation Reports (ISI publishers) or see Eugene Garfield, "Citation Analysis As a Tool in Journal Evaluation," Science 178 (1972): 471-79.
10. Tony Stankus, Rashelle Schlessinger, and Bernard S. Schlessinger, "English Language Trends in German Basic Science Journals: A Potential Collection Tool," Science and Technology Libraries 1, no. 3 (1981): 55-66.
11. William E. McGrath, "Collection Evaluation - Theory and the Search for Structure," Library Trends 33 (winter 1985): 241-66.
12. Anna H. Perrault, "The Shrinking National Collection: A Study of the Effects of the Diversion of Funds from Monographs to Serials on the Monograph Collections of Research Libraries," Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory 18, no. 1 (1994): 3-22.
13. Ibid., 16.
14. Anthony M. Cummings, Marcia L. Witte, William G. Bowen, Laura O. Lazarus, and Richard H. Ekman, University Libraries and Scholarly Communication (Washington, D.C.: ARL for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 1992).
15. Ibid., xxii.