This issue of INFORMATION FOR SOCIAL SCIENTISTS leads with the latest on the spiraling prices of journals. As consumers and producers of scholarly information, make sure you are aware of these issues which affect us all. On a happier note, you'll find updated information on the library building program and news about changes in microforms that will make using that format easier. The Electronic Data Center has an update for the number crunchers among you and many of you will find additional library staff in the social sciences to help you. As usual we include Electronic Update with the latest resources of interest to social scientists. This includes important changes to the ERIC educational system. It's also time for advanced graduate students to consider applying for Woodruff Fellowships in the library. Earn money, finish your dissertation and learn valuable new skills! Don't miss out! Comments? Suggestions? Contact Liz McBride, ISS Editor, at 7 6953 or libemb@emory.edu.

CRISIS IN SCHOLARLY PUBLICATION CONTINUES
Are publishers getting rich publishing your research? A Bear Stearns evaluation of ReedElsevier (one of the world's largest publishers of scholarly journals) recently rated the company, which earns profits of almost 40% annually, "a stockholder's dream." Should private publishers be getting rich selling information generated by research that is funded by academic institutions and the public? What's happening and how does it affect scholars at Emory?

The Problem

In an article published here in 2001, we reported that Emory was paying $17,444 for an annual subscription to Brain, a multidisciplinary journal devoted to fundamental research in brain sciences. That same subscription costs $21,269 today. Journal prices have not come down. The price increases have been constant and alarming. According to data collected by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), during the 15 year period between 1986 and 2001, scholarly journal prices jumped 215 per cent although the Consumer Price Index rose by just 64 percent. Journal prices actually grew twice as fast as health care costs during this period. The arrival of electronic journals has not stopped this trend. In fact, many publishers have been "bundling" their electronic journals, forcing libraries to subscribe to many titles at once to have any significant dollar savings.

Top tier journals continue to be concentrated in the hands of a relatively small group of commercial publishers. The top six companies now publish about 4,000 journals. This concentration drives up prices. Elsevier Science, the publishing arm of the Reed Elsevier Group, is the largest publisher with over 1800 titles and some of the highest costs. Many of the Elsevier titles are in the social sciences: International Journal of Educational Research ($1292), Journal of Criminal Research ($914), Journal of Econometrics ($2463), Personality and Individual Differences ($2018) and Social Science And Medicine ($4174). World Development, an Elsevier title which cost about $250 in 1997, now costs $1887. In a time of tight university budgets, a crisis is building.

The continuing increase in journal pricing has led many academic institutions to boycott selected publishers. Harvard, Cornell and the University of California system have announced that they would no longer subscribe to Elsevier's ScienceDirect electronic journal service because of price increases and bundling requirements. In one of the latest developments, the provosts of Duke, North Carolina State and UNC Chapel Hill have announced that the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) will also end their consortial contract with ScienceDirect. One consequence of this move will be the loss of electronic access to the body of titles shared throughout TRLN. It is estimated that access to 400 500 electronic titles will be lost on each campus beginning this month.

While Elsevier figures prominently in discussions on serial price increases, the problem is widespread and impacting numerous disciplines. In a recent article entitled "The Rise and Rise of Journal Prices in African Studies," author Hans Zell, writes that subscription prices for the 13 leading African Studies journals published in English have been sky rocketing. African Studies (Oxford University Press) has gone from $67 in 1997 to $230 in 2002/2003. Review of African Political Economy (Taylor & Francis), has gone from $190 in 1997 to $420 last year. It was only $28 in 1989!

Thrown into the mix is the decision of many publishers to begin charging for electronic copies of journals that used to be free with print subscriptions. Oxford University Press is the latest example of this trend.

The net results of escalating journal costs on university libraries are journal cancellations, decisions to stop duplicating formats (print or electronic), and spending less money on monographs.

At the University of Georgia, the University Librarian recently issued an open letter to all faculty notifying them that the Library would be converting all subscriptions held in print and electronic formats to online only. He also reported that this was a "stopgap measure" and UGA would be forced to cancel journal titles in the coming years.

Journals at Emory

Researchers at Emory have generally been lucky. The General Libraries have had reasonable budget increases and our consortial contract for Elsevier's electronic journals was negotiated early in 2003 at fairly favorable terms that will remain in effect until 2006. Still our budgets cannot keep up with current price escalations and the General Libraries have begun advocating the purchase/licensing of electronic over print whenever possible. It is no longer possible to pay twice for various formats of the same title.

Unlike the General Libraries, Emory's Health Sciences Library has had a flat budget for several years. This is in effect a budget cut since there are no funds to cover increases in journal costs. Continuing journal cancellations have resulted and the General Libraries has reallocated some of its own funds to cover costs for selected science and medical journals used throughout the campus.

Possible Solutions
As a reaction to the growing crisis in scholarly communication, new models for information dissemination are beginning to appear. Open access is the most revolutionary of these. In open access, publications are free for all users anywhere in the world and are archived permanently in wellestablished online repositories. Costs are paid by universities, foundations, federal agencies or others. Open access journals are primarily online journals. This allows authors to include audio, video, data sets, etc. as a part of their articles. Online publication also means that information reaches users in a more timely manner. Open access initiatives include:

• Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non profit initiative to publish open access journals led by nobel laureate and former director of the NIH, Harold Varmus. Its first goal, to publish a top tier peer reviewed science journal that will compete with titles such as Science, Nature, and Cell, was accomplished in October 2003 with the launch of PLoS Biology. PLoS plans to publish other open access journals in the future. (www.plos.org)
• BioMed Central publishes more than 100 peer reviewed open access journals and hosts independent open access journals. Emory is an institutional member of BioMed Central which means that Emory authors can waive the article processing fees when they submit articles to BioMed Central journals.
• Independent journals, often started by academics frustrated by the publishers and high prices of the journals they have been editing, are also trying to follow the open access model. Here at Emory Drs. Nickerson and Boatright, in the Department of Opthamalogy, started their own open access peer reviewed online journal in 1995, Molecular Vision, that is now one of the top rated journals in the field.

Open access' biggest hurdle is convincing authors that its journals are (or will be) as prestigious as its for profit competitors. With academic careers based on publication records, authors want to be sure their work appears in publications that will move their careers forward. Only by changing the model of academic publishing as well as the tenure/promotion policies at universities and research institutions can true reform occur.

Other Models
Scholarly societies, who publish journals in many fields, are also trying to address the crisis in scholarly communication. Many rely on journal subscriptions to help support their societies and therefore are trying to develop more efficient model for their publishing that don't necessarily go so far as to provide open access.

• The American Anthropological Society (AAA) has recently changed its publishing model. It has slashed its journal prices providing online access to all 29 of its journals (and their backfiles) to its members at no charge beyond membership dues and making all its titles available to libraries for less than the present cost of its top five journals. All this will be available through the AAA's new web portal, Anthrosource, which will also provide access to things such as datasets and audio and visual material

What Can You Do??

USE YOUR INFLUENCE! Scholars and scientists have the power to change the current situation. Yon are the producers and major consumers of scholarly information and only through your influence will change occur.

1) Carefully examine the pricing, copyright, and subscription licensing agreements of any journal you contribute to as an author, reviewer or editor.

2) Examine copyright agreements before publishing and modify them if possible to ensure your right to use your work or post it on a public archive. Copyright transfer agreements often require you to transfer all of your copyrights exclusively to the publisher, thereby losing control of any subsequent public distribution of your work. Restrictions on use of your own work may prohibit personal distribution for teaching and research, as well as publicly posting your paper on publicly available Websites and archives.

3) Where possible, publish in open access journals which employ funding models that do not charge

readers or their institutions for access. Serve on editorial boards or review manuscripts for open access journals. (For a list of open access journals, see the Directory of Open Access Journals at www.doaj.org.)

4) Encourage your society to explore alternatives to contacting or selling its publications to a commercial publisher.

5) Start your own open access journal!

More Information
Edwards, Richard and Shulenburger, David, "The High Cost of Scholarly Journals (and What to Do About It)," Change Nov/Dec 2003. (N.B. Edwards is the senior vice chancellor at the University of Nebraska and Shulenburger is executive vice chancellor at the University of Kansas.)

Zell, Hans, "The Rise and Rise of Journal Prices in African Studies, " Africana Libraries Newsletter, June/Sept. 2003, p.7 9

Create Change: New Systems of Scholarly Communication. http.IA,www.createchange.org

 

ELECTRONIC UPDATE
New Databases, etc.

Biography Reference Bank is a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject
areas.

Biography Resource Center combines Gale biographical sources such as Biography and Genealogy Master Index and biographies from Marquis Who's Who publications. Full text articles from about 250 periodicals are also included.

CQ Library has added two new collections:

• CQ Voting and Elections Collection integrates a wealth of data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical material on the American voter, major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships. This research and reference website is organized into six categories: presidential, congressional and gubernatorial elections, campaigns, political, parties, and voter demographics.
• CQ Congress Collection provides an analytical survey of the history and development; powers; personalities; current developments; and legislation considered and passed by the United States Congress. A wealth of data with nonbiased commentary is organized under four sections: public policy, members of Congress, CQ key votes, and legislative branch background information. The members and key votes sections allow searching by various demographic fields.

The Chronicle of Higher Education is now available campus wide. You connect to it through EUCLID or the eJournals Web page.

Communication & Mass Media Complete
(CMMC) is the result of the merging of two popular communications databases, CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index. CMMC contains the entire Communication & Mass Media Index (CMMI), plus a full text collection comprised of more than 160 communication and mass media journals.
Education Abstracts is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. English language books relating to education published in 1995 or later are also indexed.

Religion Case Reporter is a digest, cumulative index, and cumulative table of statutes for Federal and state cases addressing the free exercise of religion, state establishment of religion, the clergy, and religious institutions. January 1998 to date.

Social Sciences Abstracts is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals.

Ulrich's International provides data on over 210,000 regularly published periodicals and irregularly issued serials. Also includes over 47,000 cessations since 1979. Provides purchasing and contact information (conventional and electronic) for over 90,000 publishers in 200 countries.

Cancelled Databases
Several databases we received through Galileo have been dropped from the system due to state budget woes. Emory's access to the following ended on December 17'":

• Biological and Agricultural Index
• Book Review Digest
• General Science index
• Index to Legal Periodicals and Books
• Readers Guide Abstracts
• Wilson Business Abstracts

Many of the materials indexes in these databases are available elsewhere. To locate an alternate source, please contact your librarian

Trial Databases
BBC Monitor, apolitical news monitoring division of the BBC World Service will be on trial in early spring semester. BBC Monitor is compiled from selected, authoritative, media in 150 countries. Fulltext English language translations of foreign media are included. BBC Monitor complements World News Connection, a similar service produced by the CIA and currently available to Emory users.

Europa Online, an electronic version of the standard reference book providing information on the history press and statistics of each country of the world is available on trial until Feb. 13t".

Research Guides
Don't forget to look over the numerous new research guides available for you and your students. Research guides provide an overview of paper and electronic reference resources in a particular field. Check them out at http://web.library.emory.edu/services/ressvcs/researchguides.html

EDUCATION NEWS
The new year has brought major changes within the U.S. Department of Education that have the potential to dramatically affect research in the area of education and related disciplines. These changes are to be implemented by a new contractor to be hired by the Department of Education. At this date, the contractor has yet to be named.

Some of the changes include:

• End of the ERIC (Education Information Resource Center) Clearinghouse system. These Clearinghouses collected and published documents and served as a research assistance location via AskERIC. Each had its own web page. One of their most important functions was in construction of the ERIC databases. Some Clearinghouses have moved to new locations. This information is available at http://www.lib.msu.edu/corby/education/eric~ clearinghouseplans.htm.

• The ERIC database is not required to be updafedduring the period,lanuary T and September 30, 2004. New citations for January 1 August 2004 are to be available by September 30, 2004, with ongoing updating after this date.

• The new contract requires that the system include documents in electronic format. It is still undetermined if materials in other formats will even be included in the index.

More information about this situation is available at http://www.lib.msu.edu/corby/education/doe.htm#official. The Library is carefully monitoring this situation and exploring alternatives in order to guarantee that quality and timely research materials are available to our user community. Stay tuned for further developments. Please feel free to contact Barb Mann, Education Liaison (7 0314 libbjm@emory.edu) with issues and suggestions.

1,2,3,4...
DATA CENTER NEWS

In the Electronic Data Center, there have been some exciting developments that will be of interest to the social sciences community:

New Collections and Resources:

The Roper Center--the library has purchased a membership subscription to the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, one of the premier polling data institutions in the country. Membership will give Emory on line access to resources such as iPoll, which allows users to search through a collection of nearly 500,000 questions taken from national public opinion surveys going back to 1935, and Roper's collection of polls on presidential approval ratings. Emory patrons will also have access to Roper's vast archive of studies, which cover politics, sociology, and economics and include the Voter News Service studies and the General Social Survey series. Access to the archive, will be limited to 50 datasets/year, and requests for datasets from the archive must be placed with the Data Center.

The International Telecommunications Union World Telecommunications Indicators--the Data Center now has the latest CD edition ready for use on its public workstations. The WorldTelecommunications Indicators contains a wealth of time series data on telecommunications infrastructure and facilities for all countries in the world. The database allows patrons to save subsets of data directly into spreadsheets for programs such as Microsoft Excel.

DataFerrett and Voteview the public workstations in the Center have recently added two new applications of interest to social scientists. DataFerrett allows users to extract data from datasets produced by the Census Bureau such as the Current Population Surveys series and the American Housing Survey. Users can download subsets of variables from the available datasets for use in statistical analysis. Voteview contains data for all individual roll call votes in the United States House and Representatives and Senate for the first 106 Congresses (1789 2000). Users can map out distributions of votes and download data on the votes into a spreadsheet ready format.

New Staff:

The Data Center has hired Joel Moore and Rich Vining to help with walk in requests and other matters. Joel and Rich are both third year graduate students in the Political Science department; Joel's subject area of interest is political economy in East Asia, while Rich studies judicial politics.

Questions? Contact Dr. Rob O'Reilly, Director of the Data Center, at roreill@emory.edu.

BUILDING UPDATES

Matheson Reading Room

Check out the Matheson Reading Room in Candler Library lately? Furnishings are almost complete. Each study table now has two lamps which include network and electrical connections. Cozy leather sofas and chairs make reading easier and new floor lamps have been placed on the bridge connecting Candler to Woodruff. The Matheson Reading Room has proven to be very popular with users. Statistics indicate that 12,435 patrons used the space during the fall semester, an average of 100.28 per day. The most popular hours are in the afternoon and 8 10 p.m. Matheson was officially dedicated on December 11th.

Fourth Floor Compact Shelving
Books on the Move! Over 150,000 books with call numbers QA, QH, QM, QP, QR, T, U, and Z are returning to their renovated home! The fourth floor has been remodeled to include compact shelving, new flooring, new and improved lighting and improved study space. The floor will again be open to patrons beginning on February 9, 2004.

From January 26 February 6 use the EUCLID "Request It" option to get General Libraries' materials classed in QA-Z. Any requested items will be held for pick up on the shelves opposite the level 3 Circulation Desk. Also in February, faculty and graduate students displaced from their Level 4 studies during construction will be offered space on the renovated Level 4.

Woodruff Library Graduate Fellowships Application Deadline March 14, 2004

Funded by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences the Woodruff Library will award up to four fellowships for 2004 2005 (9 month or 12month) to advanced graduate students expecting to complete their dissertations by the end of the fellowship period. Fellows will work approximately 20 hours per week in the library in an area relating to their subject specialization. Library areas hosting fellows may include Special Collections and Archives, the Lewis H. Beck Center for Electronic Collections and Services, the Electronic Data Services Center, Collection Management, Library Systems Division, and others.

Fellows may be assigned to work with curators and specialists in the various library areas on projects such as preparing archival collections for research use and developing a seminar or exhibition from the collection; developing or managing a digital project in the fellow's subject area; assisting in research projects with numeric data sets; assisting in designing data gathering tools and in statistical analysis of user survey instruments; assisting in analyzing and developing library collections in a particular subject area; assisting students with research projects.

Two types of fellowships may be offered: a 12-month fellowship (September 1, 2004 August 31, 2005) with a stipend of $16,000, or a 9 month fellowship (September 1, 2004 May 31, 2005) with stipend of $12,000. Three month fellowships for summer 2005, may also be available.

Some of the social science graduate students who have been Woodruff Fellows in the past include: Curtis Meeks, Rob O'Reilly, and Chris Palazzolo of the Political Science Department. All Fellows agree that this is a wonderful opportunity to complete your dissertation and build valuable new skills. Think about applying!
The deadline for applications is 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 16, 2004. For full descriptions of the fellowships and application information, please visit: http://web.library.emory.edulserviceslhrljobs.ht ml

DID YOU KNOW?

Microform Scanning Capabilities Upgraded

Think Microforms are just for reading and printing? Well, not anymore! Scanning capability has been added to Reader #4. Now users can create PDF files from microfiche and microfilm and save them to a floppy, CD, or Zip disk. Unlike printing, there is no charge to create PDF files, though users must provide their own disks. Written instructions are available at the reader and personal assistance is available from the Level 1 Infocommons students or by contacting the Reference Desk. Please direct questions or comments to Elizabeth Hashimoto, Microforms and Research Services Specialist, 404-727 2322, ehashim@emory.edu.

Instructional Outreach to First Year students

The Woodruff Library recognizes the unique needs of Emory's newest students through its instructional outreach program. Department liaisons who are specialists in their disciplines contact First Year Seminar professors near the beginning of each semester to offer a range of library instruction services. Librarians can provide in class research instruction to whole classes, design web guides to make library resources accessible, assist professors with integrating research into course assignments, and offer one on one research assistance. To request instructional services for your classes, please contact Nancy Reinhold at 404 727 0148 or Jennifer Jones at 404 727 2568.

COMINGS & GOINGS
Four new staff have joined the Woodruff Library to work with students and faculty in the social sciences:

Liz Cooper is the new Anthropology Librarian. Liz comes to Emory after working seven years at the American University in Cairo Library, first as the Head of the Library Systems Department and later as the Electronic Resources and User Services Librarian. She also spent last year in Bulgaria working with refugee women from the Middle East. Liz received her MLIS from the University of Texas at Austin and her MA in Middle East Studies from the American University in Cairo. Liz joined the library on October 15. You can reach her at ecoope2@emory.edu or 7 0115.

Rob O'Reilly has officially replaced Dr. Joel Herndon as the library's Coordinator of Electronic Data Services. Rob started working in the Data Center in December 2000 as one of the library's first group of Woodruff Fellows and then stayed on in the Center as a graduate assistant handling patron request and then as interim manager after Joel left in June 2003. His tenure as Coordinator began on October 1, 2003. Rob received a Ph.D. from Emory's Political Science Department in August 2003; his dissertation (soon to be in the stacks!) was on domestic politics and trade policy and included intensive qualitative and quantitative analysis. A portion of his dissertation is currently under review at Comparative Political Studies. Rob also taught POLS 110 (Introduction to Politics) and won a Graduate Teaching award from the Political Science Department in 2002. You can reach Rob at roreill@emory.edu or 7 0129.

Justin Otto has been appointed as the new Librarian for Economics, replacing Jana Lonberger who has taken over U. S. History. Justin comes to Emory from the Information School at the University of Washington where he was a graduate reference assistant in the Foster Business Library and received his MLIS in June 2003. Justin taught economics at Washington State University where h received his MA and BA in economics. Justin has been previously employed as a Licensed Financial Assistant at KMS Financial Services in Seattle, Washington. Justin joined the staff on October 13th. You can reach him at jotto@emory.edu or 7 0150

Chris Palazzolo has been appointed to serve in a newly created position, Post Graduate Library Fellow for Political Science. This is a three year appointment. Chris is an ABD student in the Emory Political Science Department. He was a Woodruff Graduate Fellow in the Data Center in 2002 2003 and taught Introduction to Comparative Politics as a Dean's Teaching Fellow at Emory in fall 2003. Chris received his BA in International Studies and French at Rhodes College and his MA in Political Science at Emory. Chris succeeds Liz McBride as Political Science Librarian. Liz remains as Librarian for African Studies and Sociology. You can reach Chris, at cpalazz@emory.edu or 7 0143.

LIBRARY AND ITD CONTACTS:

General Libraries

LIAISONS /LIBRARIANS

Librarians are assigned to work with individual academic departments. They acquire research materials in the field and can assist faculty and students with instruction or research needs. Librarians also serve a liaison function for their departments and can provide general information about library news and services.

Raquel Cogell 7 0682 rcogell@emory.edu
African American Studies Librarian, Research Services Leader

Liz Cooper 7 0115 ecoope2@emory.edu
Anthropology Librarian

Barbara Mann 7 0314 libbjm@emory.edu
Educational Studies, International Documentation Librarian

Liz McBride 7 6953 libemb@emory.edu
African Studies and Sociology Librarian

Rob O'Reilly 7 6129 roreill@emory.edu
Coordinator of Electronic Data Services. Oversees electronic data collections and services. Emory's representative to ICPSR

Justin Otto 7 0150 jotto@emory.edu
Economics Librarian

Chris Palazzolo 7 0143 cpalazz@emory.edu
Political Science Librarian

Sala Rhodes 2 2833 smrhode@emory.edu
Psychology Librarian

Sandra Still 71061 libsjs@emory.edu
Women's Studies Librarian.

SERVICES
Government Information Center, 7 6880 is main service number.

Interlibrary Loan Services, Margaret Ellingson, Coordinator. 7 6874 is the main service number. Margaret may be reached at 7 6893 or libmgw@emory.edu

Reference/Research Services, Raquel Cogell, Head. 7 6875 is the main service number. Raquel may be reached at 7 0682 or rcogell@emory.edu.

Reserves, Chris Baldassari, Reserves Supervisor at 7 6867 or cbaldas@emory.edu.

Studies/Carrels, Administrative Office, 76861.

Training/Instruction, Nancy Reinhold, Coordinator, 7 0148 or libngr@emory.edu

ITD SUPPORT SERVICES
(ANTHROPOLOGY, ECONOMICS, POLITICAL SCIENCE, PSYCHOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY)
• Darin Melton, Desktop Support, 7 4634
• Keith Sargent, Desktop Support, 7 4634
• Heather Smith, Desktop Support, 7 4634

(EDUCATIONAL STUDIES)
• Derek Spansy, Desktop Support, 7 8266,
• Kim Culbertson, Desktop Support, 7 8266