Virginia Tech’s Participation in ASERL’s Cooperative Print Journal Retention Project
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Developing a Distributed Print Depository System
SUMMARY Barbara DesRosiers and Melissa Trevvett provided background information regarding their ongoing projects to develop print archives to preserve legacy materials and to serve as a backup to electronic journals. The presenters discussed projects currently underway and outlined the factors and issues to be considered when planning to form or join a print archive consortium. They also provided details about their current partnerships with JSTOR, Michigan State University, the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Yale University including: the components of the projects, funding and staffing issues, and coordination and communication among the partners. The presenters stressed the importance of legal agreements among partners as a way to minimize risk and provide better management of the program.
Managing Divergence of Print and Electronic Journals
This article explores the emergence of a serials publishing model in which the print and electronic editions contain divergent content. A content comparison study was conducted that demonstrated the nature and scope of the differences between the print and electronic editions of selected titles. Other research indicates that this trend appears to be growing and may be with us for the foreseeable future. The article looks specifically at how this publishing model is impacting the National Library of Medicine's collection, operations, and services. It examines how content differences are discovered, how information about differences is recorded, what the differences are and how prevalent they are, how content differences impact the ability to provide interlibrary loan services and how content differences impact the Library's ability to maintain a complete archive.