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Kristen W.
Monday, May 24, 2010
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New Book Carts
If anymore carts of new books appear at the Reference Desk take them immediately over to Valerie. She only has through Friday to change their status from in processing to available.
Reed Business Publishing Cancels Journals
This news concerning Reed Business Publishing was posted on BUSLIB-L yesterday:
In case you did not notice - on April 30, 2010, Reed Business Information stopped publishing Purchasing Magazine (www.purchasing.com) and over twenty other titles.
Refer to press release: http://www.reedbusinessinformation.com/index.asp?layout=inside&articleId=CA6726615
Excerpt. The following brands have been discontinued:
Building Design+Construction, Chain Leader, Construction Bulletin, Construction Equipment, Consulting-Specifying Engineer, Control Engineering, Converting, Foodservice Equipment & Supplies, Graphic Arts Blue Book, Graphics Arts Monthly, HOTELS, Logistics Management, Material Handling Product News, Modern Materials Handling, Plant Engineering, Professional Builder, Professional Remodeler, Purchasing, Restaurants & Institutions, Semiconductor International, Spec Check, Supply Chain Management Review and Tradeshow Week.
Purchasing Magazine was established 95 years ago and by the late 1990s, it has a website www.purchasing.com . To the supply chain community, this is a very big loss. Several times per day, this publication reported breaking news developments about various industries. More importantly, for a nominal price, it also provided trend analysis and price forecasts for hundreds of commodities. Many businesses, especially small ones on a tight budget, relied on their information which was attainable for a reasonable price. For example, for about $80 per month, one could obtain a copy of executive editor Tom Stundza's Steel Flash Report which gave a monthly average price and forecast for a number of highly used steel products. Publications offering forecast information usually cost thousands of dollars.
As Trip Wyckoff, publisher of Special Issues, could probably attest, all of these ceased publications above offered rankings and annual surveys which those in the industry regularly used. Maybe this is a wake-up call for the users - good information is not free and it disappears if no one wants to buy or support it.
Respectfully,
Danguole Kviklys
Chicago
We have electronic access to Purchasing through several of our databases. I just wanted to let you know since it may take some time for the changes to be reflected in Serials Solutions.
In case you did not notice - on April 30, 2010, Reed Business Information stopped publishing Purchasing Magazine (www.purchasing.com) and over twenty other titles.
Refer to press release: http://www.reedbusinessinformation.com/index.asp?layout=inside&articleId=CA6726615
Excerpt. The following brands have been discontinued:
Building Design+Construction, Chain Leader, Construction Bulletin, Construction Equipment, Consulting-Specifying Engineer, Control Engineering, Converting, Foodservice Equipment & Supplies, Graphic Arts Blue Book, Graphics Arts Monthly, HOTELS, Logistics Management, Material Handling Product News, Modern Materials Handling, Plant Engineering, Professional Builder, Professional Remodeler, Purchasing, Restaurants & Institutions, Semiconductor International, Spec Check, Supply Chain Management Review and Tradeshow Week.
Purchasing Magazine was established 95 years ago and by the late 1990s, it has a website www.purchasing.com . To the supply chain community, this is a very big loss. Several times per day, this publication reported breaking news developments about various industries. More importantly, for a nominal price, it also provided trend analysis and price forecasts for hundreds of commodities. Many businesses, especially small ones on a tight budget, relied on their information which was attainable for a reasonable price. For example, for about $80 per month, one could obtain a copy of executive editor Tom Stundza's Steel Flash Report which gave a monthly average price and forecast for a number of highly used steel products. Publications offering forecast information usually cost thousands of dollars.
As Trip Wyckoff, publisher of Special Issues, could probably attest, all of these ceased publications above offered rankings and annual surveys which those in the industry regularly used. Maybe this is a wake-up call for the users - good information is not free and it disappears if no one wants to buy or support it.
Respectfully,
Danguole Kviklys
Chicago
We have electronic access to Purchasing through several of our databases. I just wanted to let you know since it may take some time for the changes to be reflected in Serials Solutions.
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