Karen Hunter of Elsevier is listed as the contact person and I would be delighted to leave the honor of describing the program to her, as it seems to me a very good example of how publishers and libraries can work together on a project of benefit to both and to our clienteles. Suffice for the moment to say that several dozen journals in material science are involved, page images and ascii text will be provided, and a diverse group of libraries and methods are being examined. Journal claims and replacements are increasingly problematic in my branch geology library. The limitation of claim periods to shorter and shorter windows of opportunity. The problem is especially acute in my geology library where most things are received irregularly and the large number of serials make review of all titles a once a year proposition.
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