131.2 JOLANDA VON HAGEN DIES DECEMBER 12, 1994, Marcia Tuttle
131.3 ACRL JOURNAL COSTS IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES DISCUSSION GROUP, Cindy Hepfer
tuttle@gibbs.oit.unc.edu
I am happy to announce that there is an easier way to access and retrieve the back issues of the _Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues_. In addition to the archive at listserv@unc.edu, the entire file of the pricing newslet- ter is available through the Davis Library gopher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The address of the university's gopher is sunsite.oit.unc.edu. From the main menu select The UNC-Chapel Hill Internet Library, then item #4 Electronic Journals, and finally item #2 _Newsletter on Seri- als Pricing Issues_. The issues are grouped by year. We are in the process of loading the newsletter issues on the library's World Wide Web, and I will give full instructions for this means of access when the loading is complete and WAIS indexing is available.131.2 JOLANDA VON HAGEN DIES DECEMBER 29, 1994
Marcia Tuttle, tuttle@gibbs.oit.unc.edu.
Word has come from family and friends of Jolanda Luise von Hagen (nee Huel- lein) of her death on December 29, 1994, after a severe illness. Mrs. von Hagen was for many years head of Springer-Verlag New York and active in STM. It was during that time that she and I became professional friends. I always had great respect for Mrs. von Hagen, and over the years I developed an affection for her. I have missed her professional companionship since she left the United States. A memorial service was held on January 9, 1995, at the Cemetery Chapel in Dossenheim, Germany. Mrs. von Hagen's urn was interred in the Hagen family grave at Wasbuettel with only closest family and friends in attendance. The family suggests that donations, if desired, be made to the Children's Cancer Unit, University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany, Account Number 345, Volksbank Meckesheim BLZ 672 633 95.131.3 ACRL JOURNAL COSTS IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES DISCUSSION GROUP
Cindy Hepfer, SUNY at Buffalo Health Sciences Library, HSLCINDY@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu.
ALA MIDWINTER
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2:00-4:00PM
PENNSYLVANIA CONVENTION CENTER, ROOM 103B
Topic: NEGOTIATING PRICES AND LICENSE AGREEMENTS FOR NETWORKED ELECTRONIC
INFORMATION
Discussion Group Chair/Moderator:
Cindy Hepfer, Head of Serials Department, Health Sciences Library,
State University of New York at Buffalo
Speakers:
Trisha Davis, Head of Continuation Acquisition Division, Ohio State
University
Beverlee French, Assistant University Librarian for Sciences & Sys-
tems, University of California, Davis
Sean Haggerty, Business Development Manager, SilverPlatter Informa-
tion Inc.
Karen Hunter, Vice President and Assistant to the Chairman, Elsevier
Science Publishers
Judy Luther, Senior Manager, North American Sales, Institute for
Scientific Information
Join us for a stimulating panel presentation and discussion on negotiating
prices and license agreements for networked electronic information. Biblio-
graphic databases and full text databases will both be addressed. Addition-
ally, two points of view will be represented, those of the libraries and
the information producers/providers. We will talk about several possible
types of network license agreements, different sizes and configurations of
networks, and the pricing philosophies/policies of the different companies
represented on the panel.
131.4 FROM THE MAILBOX
The mailbox is: tuttle@gibbs.oit.unc.edu.
From: Carolyn Kotlas, Institute for Academic Technology, UNC-Chapel Hill,
carolynk.iat@mhs.unc.edu (January 10, 1995):
Thanks for reprinting the article about Andrew Odlyzko's paper. He has a
revised edition now and the retrieval information that was in my article
has changed. I've gotten a couple of email messages from your subscribers
who have had problems getting the paper, so I'm sending you Andrew's mes-
sage about the revision and where it is in case you want to include an
update in a future issue of your newsletter.
======attached message========
>From Andrew Odlyzko, amo@research.att.com:
The latest revision of my essay, "Tragic loss or good riddance? The impend-
ing demise of traditional scholarly journals" is now available. As before,
this revision consists of a condensed and a full version.
The condensed version has appeared in the Notices Amer. Math. Soc., vol. 42
(Jan. 1995), pp. 49-53, and is to be reprinted in Deutsche Math. Ver. Mit-
teilungen and (in a French translation by D. Foata) in Gazette des mathema-
ticiens.
The full version will be published in Intern. J. Human-Computer Studies
(formerly Intern. J. Man-Machine Studies) and reprinted in "Electronic
Publishing Confronts Academia: The Agenda for the Year 2000," Robin P. Peek
and Gregory B. Newby, eds., MIT Press/ASIS monograph, MIT Press, 1995. It
has also been published in the electronic J. Univ. Comp. Sci., pilot issue,
1994 (URL http://hyperg.iicm.tu-graz.ac.at).
I am very grateful to the many correspondents whose corrections and com-
ments have substantially improved this work.
The condensed version differs only slightly from that of July 16, 1994.
The full version has been modified a bit more, but even there, the changes
have not been extensive. The main difference for most readers might be the
availability of PostScript versions of the typeset manuscripts.
Available files:
file name size description
--------- ---- -----------
tragic.loss.diffs 2 KB brief description of differences
between the complete versions of
Jul. 16 and Nov. 6, 1994
tragic.loss.txt 219 KB ordinary text of both short and
full versions, and the description
of differences between the complete
versions of Jul. 16 and Nov. 6, 1994
tragic.loss.short.ps 102 KB PostScript of short version
tragic.loss.long.ps 387 KB PostScript of full version
To obtain all these files through email, send the message
send tragic.loss.diffs from att/math/odlyzko
send tragic.loss.txt from att/math/odlyzko
send tragic.loss.short.ps from att/math/odlyzko
send tragic.loss.long.ps from att/math/odlyzko
mailsize 200k
to netlib@research.att.com, where "mailsize 200k" is an optional command
that will ensure messages are kept under 200 KB each.
These versions are also available on WWW at URL
ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/att/math/odlyzko/index.html.Z
Ftp access is available on machine netlib.att.com. After logging in as
"anonymous" and giving the full email address as password, do
cd netlib/att/math/odlyzko
binary
get tragic.loss.txt.Z
to obtain a copy of the (compressed) text version, for example.
Comments are solicited.
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>From Laura Gasaway, Law Librarian, UNC-Chapel Hill, unclng@email.unc.edu (December
29, 1994):
I have just received word that the 2d Circuit denied Texaco's petition for
rehearing. This was not a surprise since courts don't like to grant rehear-
ings -- it is sort of an admission that the court made a mistake earlier.
The court amended its earlier opinion slightly. I should receive a copy
soon. I thought you might like to put a short news note in the next issue
of your newsletter.
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>From Chris Schneider, Gordon & Breach, christopher.schneider@gbpub.com, in
response to questions on serialst about the publisher's pricing policies as
listed in a chart on its 1995 price list:
Pursuant to our previous communication on serialst, there are two items
that are unfortunately misleading and that we are correcting -- with all
apologies for the confusion, of course.
1. Interlibrary lending -- It is allowed under all vertical columns as long
as it falls within Fair Use.
2. Please disregard the reference to Swiss law. This was errantly included
and is fully retracted.
Thank you and please let me know if you have any more questions.
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