A reputational study of academic publishers

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 234-247

  Metz, Paul ^a   Stemmer, John ^a  

^a NONE

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EID: 0030532461     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl_57_03_234     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Hendrik Edelman, "Selection Methodology in Academic Libraries," Library Resources & Technical Services 23 (winter 1979): 33-38 .
2. Charles A. Schwartz, "Book Selection and Bounded Rationality," College & Research Libraries 50 (May 1989): 328-43 .
3. John Calhoun and James K. Bracken, "An Index of Publisher Quality for the Academic Library," College & Research Libraries 44 (May 1983): 257-59.
4. Edward A. Goedeken, "An Index to Publisher Quality Revisited: A Partial Replication," Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory 17 (fall 1993): 263-68 .
5. Two printing errors should be reported. On the questionnaire sent out in the first mailing, Edwin Meilen was represented as "Edward Mellen" and the "5" score for quality of Stanford University Press was omitted. These errors were corrected for the second mailing. Many respondents provided their own "5" for Stanford's quality score, then circled it. The differences in scores for these publishers were not statistically significant between the two versions. In both, Stanford ranked fourth and Meilen last on quality. Stanford's quality scores closely co-vary with its relevance scores, for which there was no omission.