Core Journals: Fact or Fiction
Barbara Butler, University of Oregon
Janet Webster, Oregon State University
Journals remain the backbone of scientific communication.
Collections serve unique communities.
Decision need to be made locally.
Collections cuts are ubiquitous.
Access is as valuable as ownership.
“The lifeblood of a university is its
library, and cutting library resources is
like cutting off oxygen to the brain.”
Robert Buckingham, University of Saskactchewan
Classics
• Marine Ecology Progress
Series
• Deep-Sea Research. Part 2
• Journal of Experimental
Marine
• Biology and Ecology
• Marine Biology
Varying
opinions
• Biological Bulletin
• Bulletin of Marine Science
• Canadian J. of Fisheries &Aquatic
Sciences
• ICES J. of Marine Science
• Limnology and Oceanography
Fisheries
Titles
Aquaculture
Fisheries Oceanography
Fishery Bulletin
Journal of Fish Biology
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
IAMSLIC
orphans
• Journal of Marine Research
• Journal of Phycology
• Journal of Plankton Research
• Marine and Freshwater
Research
• Marine Environmental
Research
What are your users really doing and using?
Does it matter where they publish?
What is your budget?
Is borrowing less expensive than buying/licensing?
Who are your partners?
What is good enough?
Thanks!
Questions?