[WEB4LIB] Bibliography in CyberSpace: A Complete Zero?

[Erwin, Patricia J.]

It's seems a relatively short-sighted solution. Is OUP planning on
maintaining the website in perpetuity?  

In the early to mid-60s, the Journal of the American Medical Association
stopped publishing lengthy bibliographies for some articles. The reader was
directed to the AMA for the complete bibliography.  For anyone doing
research, or looking for background, this provides a major delay.  So far,
the bibliographies are still available (or were, the last time I had
occasion to request one).

Patricia Erwin
erwin.patricia at mayo.edu
Mayo Medical Library
Rochester MN 55905
Phone: 507-284-4952
FAX: 507-284-2215


-----Original Message-----
From: Gerry Mckiernan [mailto:GMCKIERN at gwgate.lib.iastate.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 1:12 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Bibliography in CyberSpace: A Complete Zero?


  This Sunday's New York Times had a most interesting article about the
decision on the part of Oxford University Press to 
_not_ publish the 78-page bibliography associated with their edition of _The
Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero_ by 
Robert Kaplan _with_ the printed book. 

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/052900web-bibliographies.html

Instead the bibliography (and notes) has been published on OPU's Web site
http://www.oup-usa.org/sc/0195128427/index.html

    This phenomenon is quite interesting in itself, but perhaps
most interest is the fact that  the OCLC
record for this edition (OCLC 41165440) makes no mention of this fact nor
does it include a hotlink to the Web bibliography!

   Any thoughts and/reactions to either would certainly make for some
interesting pre-ALA chatter.

/Gerry McKiernan
Theoretical Librarian
Iowa State University 
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu 

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