BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS
of Organizations (Bibliography handed out III. How to Locate Library Materials and discussed in class) A. How to locate books using the card VI. Tour of Library catalog 1. Explanation of divided catalog a. Name-Title Section REFERENCES b. Subject Section (including discussion of MeSH) 1. BORDA, EVA, and MURRAY, MARY E. Intro2. Explanation of catalog cards duction to library services for allied health a. Types of data found on Bull. Med. Libr. Assoc. 62: 363-366, personnel. permanent cards Oct. 1974. b. Types of temporary cards Journal Price Survey* (e.g., order slips) B. How to locate journals using the computer-produced journal list BY MLA COMMITTEE C. How to locate journals that are owned ON BIBLIOGRAPHICAL PROJECTS by the library but are not on the shelf AND PROBLEMS (e.g., checked out, at bindery) D. How to locate books and journals that COMMITTEE activity for the current year has are needed but not owned by the included a journal price survey. We studied library price changes in medical periodicals for a IV. Policies and Services of the Library ten-year period (1965-74) for those titles most A. Reference policies and services (includ- likely to be received by small libraries and ing MEDLINE) compared them with Consumer Price Index B. Interlibrary loan policies and services increases. C. Photocopy policies and services It was decided that the titles covered by the D. Circulation policies and services May 1974 issue of Abridged Index Medicus would be used as a representative basis for the study because these titles are those most likely OUTLINE OF SESSION II to be subscribed to by small libraries, and also because the titles indexed are selected by an I. How to Verify Citations; How to Search advisory committee of physicians, medical the Journal Literature editors, and medical librarians. The AIM titles A. Index Medicus and MEDLINE are considered to represent clinically-oriented B. Biological Abstracts® journals of good quality. In addition, price C. Current Contents® changes for four secondary services important D. Science Citation Index® to hospital libraries were studied-Hospital E. Sources for unraveling journal title Literature Index, Index Medicus, Abridged abbreviations Index Medicus, and International Nursing In1. List of Journals Indexed in Index dex. Medicus In cases in which a journal began its 2. World List pf Scientific Peri- publication after the initial year appropriate to odicals the survey, its price was traced to volume 1, 3. Biological Abstracts List of and in case of title change, data on the old title Journals were also collected. A very few titles were II. How to Verify Book Citations eliminated from the study because prices were A. NLM Current Catalog and CATLINE in foreign currencies which had fluctuations B. National Union Catalog and devaluations making conversions to U. S. III. How to Find Appropriate Bibliographic dollars too difficult to warrant the effort. Styles for Citations Table 1 is a list of Abridged Index Medicus IV. How to Find Biographical Data and/or Addresses of Living Individuals (Bibliography handed out and discussed in class) * The Committee survey is published at the request V. How to Find Data About and/or Addresses of the MLA Board of Directors-Editor.
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TABLE 1 PRICE INCREASES FOR SPECIFIC JOURNALS
American Family Physician American Heart Journal American Journal of Cardiology American Journal of Clinical Nutrition American Journal of Clinical Pathology American Journal of Digestive Diseases American Journal of Diseases of Children American Journal of Human Genetics American Journal of the Medical Sciences American Journal of Medicine American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology American Journal of Ophthalmology American Journal of Pathology American Journal of Physical Medicine American Journal of Psychiatry American Journal of Public Health American Journal of Roentgenology American Journal of Surgery American Journal of Tropical Medicine American Review of Respiratory Disease Anaesthesia
Anesthesiology Annals of Internal Medicine Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology Annals of Surgery Annals of Thoracic Surgery Archives of Dermatology Archives of Environmental Health Archives of General Psychiatry Archives of Internal Medicine Archives of Neurology Archives of Ophthalmology Archives of Otolaryngology Archives of Pathology Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Archives of Surgery Arthritis and Rheumatism Blood Brain British Heart Hournal British Medical Journal Canadian Medical Association Journal Cancer Chest Circulation Clinical Pediatrics (Phila) Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics DM; Disease-a-month Diabetes Endocrinology Gastroenterology Geriatrics Gut Health Services Reports
Inquiry Bull. Med Libr. Assoc. 63(2) April 1975
1965
1974
% Increase
$10.00
$10.00 27.50 18.00
0 96 29 67 100 25 50 100 120
14.00 14.00 15.00 15.00
12.00 12.00 15.00 10.00 14.00 19.00 12.00 17.50 9.00 12.00 15.00 15.00 15.00
12.00 15.00 8.43 10.00 10.00 16.00 18.00 12.00 9.00 12.00 12.00 12.00 12.00 12.00 12.00 12.00 10.50 12.00 10.00 19.00 13.34 14.00 15.00 15.00 20.00 15.00 14.00 10.00 17.50 9.00 14.00 25.00 15.00 6.00 14.00 5.25 free
25.00 30.00 15.00 18.00 30.00 22.00 20.00 33.50 15.00 60.00 12.00 15.00 20.00 25.00 20.00 25.00 25.00 25.92 15.00 18.00 30.00 22.00 35.00 12.00 12.00 12.00
12.00 12.00 12.00 12.00 12.00 17.50 18.00 18.00 35.00 23.45 33.50 38.50 20.00
25.00 28.00 20.00
17.00 35.00 15.75 23.00 35.00 25.00 21.00 33.50
10.10
43 76 25 243 33 25 33 66 33 108 66 207 50 80 88 22 192 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 67 50 80 84 76 139 157 33 25 87 43 70 100 75 64 40 67 250 139 92
4.00
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TABLE 1-Continued
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Journal of the American Dietetic Association Journal of the American Medical Association Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Am.) Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Br.) Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism Journal of Clinical Investigation Journal of Clinical Pathology Journal of Experimental Medicine Journal of Gerontology Journal of Immunology Journal of Infectious Diseases Journal of Investigative Dermatology Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine Journal of Laryngology and Otology Journal of Medical Education Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Journal of Neurosurgery Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Commonwealth Journal of Oral Surgery Journal of Pediatrics Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Journal of Trauma Lancet Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics Medicine Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly New England Journal of Medicine Obstetrics and Gynecology Pediatrics Physical Therapy Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Postgraduate Medicine Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases Radiology
Surgery Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics
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1965
1974
% Increase
$12.00 8.00 18.00 14.50
$28.50 18.00 23.00
7.50
14.00
20.00 15.00 14.00 40.00 15.00 28.00 14.00 12.00 18.00 15.00 15.00 15.00 15.00
35.00 60.00 33.50 55.00 26.00 48.00 50.00 40.00 30.50 23.00 15.00 40.00 35.00
138 125 28 10 87 75 300 139 38 73 71
12.45 10.00 15.00 25.00 15.00 12.00 12.50 11.00 2.00 8.00
29.88 18.00 27.50 40.50 24.00 18.50
15.00 12.00 10.00 15.00 10.00 12.00 20.00 18.00 15.00
16.00
19.50 22.00
15.00 18.00 18.00
17.00 12.00 30.00
11.30 19.50 35.00 29.00 20.00
257 233 69 53 0 167 133 140 80 83 62 60 54 56 100 650 125 20 42 20 100 13 63 75 61 33
Bull. Med. Libr. Assoc. 63(2) April 1975
BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS TABLE 2 JOURNAL PRICE SURVEY-ABRIDGED INDEX MEDICUS TITLES
Year
1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973
1974
No. of Joumals
Average Price
Index 100 = 1965
% Increase Over Previous Year
92 93 94 95 95 95 96 96 1453* 96 1484* 96 Original 92 AIM Titles
$13.69
100 102 106 118 128
2 3 11
1456*
14.03 14.50
16.09 17.47 18.76 19.68 21.22 30.38 22.60 35.67 24.58 24.12 42.09
137 144 155 165
180
9 7 5 8 7 17 9
Comparable Consumer Price Index % Increaset 1.7 2.9 2.9 4.2 5.4 5.9 4.3
(1965) (1966) (1967) (1968) (1969) (1970) (1971)
3.3
(1972)
6.2
(1973)
176 18
* From CLASQUIN, F. F. Periodical prices: A three-year comparative study. Libr. J. 99: 2447-2449, Oct. 1, 1974. The journals represented are those indexed in Index Medicus. t The Consumer Price Index figures on this table reflect the percent increase in prices during the year the journal prices were established, not the year the journals were published. TABLE 3 RANGE OF PERCENTAGE INCREASE BETWEEN 1965 AND 1974 No. of Journals
200%
11 11 13 26 12 16 7
Median = 67%
titles and their subscription costs for the years 1965 and 1974. Table 2 shows the advance of average subscription prices for Abridged Index Medicus titles from the year 1965 to 1974. Table 3 indicates the range of percentage increase over a ten-year period.
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The four indexes studied showed a wide range of pricing policies: (1) Since its inception in 1966 the International Nursing Index has ranged from $15 to $25 per subscription, a 67% price increase and much in line with journal prices overall. (2) Hospital Literature Index has remained at $10 per year over the past ten years. (3) Abridged Index Medicus began in 1970 at $12 per year. It is currently $21.90, a rise in price of 83%. (4) Index Medicus, over the past ten years has gone from $26 to $155 per year-a rise in price of 496%. Gertrude Foreman T. Mark Hodges Erika Love Ruth C. Smith Anne Swedenberg Marqua E. Weathers Jack D. Key, Chairman
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of Organizations (Bibliography handed out III. How to Locate Library Materials and discussed in class) A. How to locate books using the card VI. Tour of Library catalog 1. Explanation of divided catalog a. Name-Title Section REFERENCES b. Subject Section (including discussion of MeSH) 1. BORDA, EVA, and MURRAY, MARY E. Intro2. Explanation of catalog cards duction to library services for allied health a. Types of data found on Bull. Med. Libr. Assoc. 62: 363-366, personnel. permanent cards Oct. 1974. b. Types of temporary cards Journal Price Survey* (e.g., order slips) B. How to locate journals using the computer-produced journal list BY MLA COMMITTEE C. How to locate journals that are owned ON BIBLIOGRAPHICAL PROJECTS by the library but are not on the shelf AND PROBLEMS (e.g., checked out, at bindery) D. How to locate books and journals that COMMITTEE activity for the current year has are needed but not owned by the included a journal price survey. We studied library price changes in medical periodicals for a IV. Policies and Services of the Library ten-year period (1965-74) for those titles most A. Reference policies and services (includ- likely to be received by small libraries and ing MEDLINE) compared them with Consumer Price Index B. Interlibrary loan policies and services increases. C. Photocopy policies and services It was decided that the titles covered by the D. Circulation policies and services May 1974 issue of Abridged Index Medicus would be used as a representative basis for the study because these titles are those most likely OUTLINE OF SESSION II to be subscribed to by small libraries, and also because the titles indexed are selected by an I. How to Verify Citations; How to Search advisory committee of physicians, medical the Journal Literature editors, and medical librarians. The AIM titles A. Index Medicus and MEDLINE are considered to represent clinically-oriented B. Biological Abstracts® journals of good quality. In addition, price C. Current Contents® changes for four secondary services important D. Science Citation Index® to hospital libraries were studied-Hospital E. Sources for unraveling journal title Literature Index, Index Medicus, Abridged abbreviations Index Medicus, and International Nursing In1. List of Journals Indexed in Index dex. Medicus In cases in which a journal began its 2. World List pf Scientific Peri- publication after the initial year appropriate to odicals the survey, its price was traced to volume 1, 3. Biological Abstracts List of and in case of title change, data on the old title Journals were also collected. A very few titles were II. How to Verify Book Citations eliminated from the study because prices were A. NLM Current Catalog and CATLINE in foreign currencies which had fluctuations B. National Union Catalog and devaluations making conversions to U. S. III. How to Find Appropriate Bibliographic dollars too difficult to warrant the effort. Styles for Citations Table 1 is a list of Abridged Index Medicus IV. How to Find Biographical Data and/or Addresses of Living Individuals (Bibliography handed out and discussed in class) * The Committee survey is published at the request V. How to Find Data About and/or Addresses of the MLA Board of Directors-Editor.
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Bull. Med. Libr. Assoc. 63(2) April 1975
TABLE 1 PRICE INCREASES FOR SPECIFIC JOURNALS
American Family Physician American Heart Journal American Journal of Cardiology American Journal of Clinical Nutrition American Journal of Clinical Pathology American Journal of Digestive Diseases American Journal of Diseases of Children American Journal of Human Genetics American Journal of the Medical Sciences American Journal of Medicine American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology American Journal of Ophthalmology American Journal of Pathology American Journal of Physical Medicine American Journal of Psychiatry American Journal of Public Health American Journal of Roentgenology American Journal of Surgery American Journal of Tropical Medicine American Review of Respiratory Disease Anaesthesia
Anesthesiology Annals of Internal Medicine Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology Annals of Surgery Annals of Thoracic Surgery Archives of Dermatology Archives of Environmental Health Archives of General Psychiatry Archives of Internal Medicine Archives of Neurology Archives of Ophthalmology Archives of Otolaryngology Archives of Pathology Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Archives of Surgery Arthritis and Rheumatism Blood Brain British Heart Hournal British Medical Journal Canadian Medical Association Journal Cancer Chest Circulation Clinical Pediatrics (Phila) Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics DM; Disease-a-month Diabetes Endocrinology Gastroenterology Geriatrics Gut Health Services Reports
Inquiry Bull. Med Libr. Assoc. 63(2) April 1975
1965
1974
% Increase
$10.00
$10.00 27.50 18.00
0 96 29 67 100 25 50 100 120
14.00 14.00 15.00 15.00
12.00 12.00 15.00 10.00 14.00 19.00 12.00 17.50 9.00 12.00 15.00 15.00 15.00
12.00 15.00 8.43 10.00 10.00 16.00 18.00 12.00 9.00 12.00 12.00 12.00 12.00 12.00 12.00 12.00 10.50 12.00 10.00 19.00 13.34 14.00 15.00 15.00 20.00 15.00 14.00 10.00 17.50 9.00 14.00 25.00 15.00 6.00 14.00 5.25 free
25.00 30.00 15.00 18.00 30.00 22.00 20.00 33.50 15.00 60.00 12.00 15.00 20.00 25.00 20.00 25.00 25.00 25.92 15.00 18.00 30.00 22.00 35.00 12.00 12.00 12.00
12.00 12.00 12.00 12.00 12.00 17.50 18.00 18.00 35.00 23.45 33.50 38.50 20.00
25.00 28.00 20.00
17.00 35.00 15.75 23.00 35.00 25.00 21.00 33.50
10.10
43 76 25 243 33 25 33 66 33 108 66 207 50 80 88 22 192 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 67 50 80 84 76 139 157 33 25 87 43 70 100 75 64 40 67 250 139 92
4.00
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TABLE 1-Continued
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Journal of the American Dietetic Association Journal of the American Medical Association Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Am.) Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Br.) Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism Journal of Clinical Investigation Journal of Clinical Pathology Journal of Experimental Medicine Journal of Gerontology Journal of Immunology Journal of Infectious Diseases Journal of Investigative Dermatology Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine Journal of Laryngology and Otology Journal of Medical Education Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Journal of Neurosurgery Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Commonwealth Journal of Oral Surgery Journal of Pediatrics Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Journal of Trauma Lancet Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics Medicine Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly New England Journal of Medicine Obstetrics and Gynecology Pediatrics Physical Therapy Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Postgraduate Medicine Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases Radiology
Surgery Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics
230
1965
1974
% Increase
$12.00 8.00 18.00 14.50
$28.50 18.00 23.00
7.50
14.00
20.00 15.00 14.00 40.00 15.00 28.00 14.00 12.00 18.00 15.00 15.00 15.00 15.00
35.00 60.00 33.50 55.00 26.00 48.00 50.00 40.00 30.50 23.00 15.00 40.00 35.00
138 125 28 10 87 75 300 139 38 73 71
12.45 10.00 15.00 25.00 15.00 12.00 12.50 11.00 2.00 8.00
29.88 18.00 27.50 40.50 24.00 18.50
15.00 12.00 10.00 15.00 10.00 12.00 20.00 18.00 15.00
16.00
19.50 22.00
15.00 18.00 18.00
17.00 12.00 30.00
11.30 19.50 35.00 29.00 20.00
257 233 69 53 0 167 133 140 80 83 62 60 54 56 100 650 125 20 42 20 100 13 63 75 61 33
Bull. Med. Libr. Assoc. 63(2) April 1975
BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS TABLE 2 JOURNAL PRICE SURVEY-ABRIDGED INDEX MEDICUS TITLES
Year
1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973
1974
No. of Joumals
Average Price
Index 100 = 1965
% Increase Over Previous Year
92 93 94 95 95 95 96 96 1453* 96 1484* 96 Original 92 AIM Titles
$13.69
100 102 106 118 128
2 3 11
1456*
14.03 14.50
16.09 17.47 18.76 19.68 21.22 30.38 22.60 35.67 24.58 24.12 42.09
137 144 155 165
180
9 7 5 8 7 17 9
Comparable Consumer Price Index % Increaset 1.7 2.9 2.9 4.2 5.4 5.9 4.3
(1965) (1966) (1967) (1968) (1969) (1970) (1971)
3.3
(1972)
6.2
(1973)
176 18
* From CLASQUIN, F. F. Periodical prices: A three-year comparative study. Libr. J. 99: 2447-2449, Oct. 1, 1974. The journals represented are those indexed in Index Medicus. t The Consumer Price Index figures on this table reflect the percent increase in prices during the year the journal prices were established, not the year the journals were published. TABLE 3 RANGE OF PERCENTAGE INCREASE BETWEEN 1965 AND 1974 No. of Journals
200%
11 11 13 26 12 16 7
Median = 67%
titles and their subscription costs for the years 1965 and 1974. Table 2 shows the advance of average subscription prices for Abridged Index Medicus titles from the year 1965 to 1974. Table 3 indicates the range of percentage increase over a ten-year period.
Bull. Med. Libr. Assoc. 63(2) April 19 75
The four indexes studied showed a wide range of pricing policies: (1) Since its inception in 1966 the International Nursing Index has ranged from $15 to $25 per subscription, a 67% price increase and much in line with journal prices overall. (2) Hospital Literature Index has remained at $10 per year over the past ten years. (3) Abridged Index Medicus began in 1970 at $12 per year. It is currently $21.90, a rise in price of 83%. (4) Index Medicus, over the past ten years has gone from $26 to $155 per year-a rise in price of 496%. Gertrude Foreman T. Mark Hodges Erika Love Ruth C. Smith Anne Swedenberg Marqua E. Weathers Jack D. Key, Chairman
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