Virginia Tech’s Participation in ASERL’s Cooperative Print Journal Retention Project
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Orbis Cascade Alliance Distributed Print Repository: Organizing Collections at the Consortial Level
Journal print archives or repositories have been in existence for some time. More recently, the academic libraries in the United States Pacific Northwest that belong to the Orbis Cascade Alliance undertook the development of a distributed repository to preserve the print journals from the American Chemical Society and the JSTOR Arts and Sciences I & II collections. The project sought to identify two complete runs of each title held between the members of the consortium and assign responsibility for preserving the titles in perpetuity. The methodology, challenges, and benefits of this project are discussed.
An Emerging Picture of Mathematicians' Use of Electronic Resources
ABSTRACT This study presents the results of an e-mail survey of mathematics faculty, instructors and graduate students concerning the effect of the withdrawal of print volumes of core mathematics journals from the University of Arizona Science-Engineering Library that are available through JSTOR. Reported use and preferences for access of these core mathematics journals are given. Comments are included from those mathematicians who reported being affected by the removal of print journals from the library in the context of assumptions about how mathematicians locate and use information. Results of this study reiterate the results of the previous studies on the preferences and usage of electronic resources. In this regard, the responses of the University of Arizona mathematics community is typical of mathematicians elsewhere, especially at research institutions.