American Meteorological Society Thirteen issues were received. A longer survey period with receipt of more print issues would give a better picture of these publishers from whom we received ten or less issues during the six week survey period. Hydrobiologia is four issue numbers ahead electronically compared to print. The indicators are positive. Academics and other users often express strong preferences for some titles to be continued in print, especially for key titles.
Journals are their scholarly lifeblood so adaptation to change takes some time.
Some academics may need a bridge period to become comfortable with relying on the electronic version instead of the print. The economics of library funding may well set the pace for dropping print and relying on online more than the level of academic acceptance for the relatively new medium of electronic journal publishing. However it may certainly be advisable to move more conservatively on very high interest titles impacting the largest numbers of users. It is unclear at this time whether one should rely solely on the electronic version of a journal containing images of very high quality that may not be available at such high quality electronically, e.g. satellite images and electron micrographs. So one factor may be the journal content.