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Scientific Journals Proliferate Despite Shrinking Library Budgets By coincidence, the same day we re ceived announcement of a new journal from Heyden, Journal of Applied Toxicology, we also received our copy of the April issue of Physics Today and took note of a letter to the editor (p 13) entitled, "Yet'another journal." This complaint on the publication of "yet another North-Holland journal, Solid State Ionics" has echoes in the chemical community as well. B. G. Wybourne of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand suggests in his letter a three-pronged attack to cause the early demise of new jour nals, which are often unnecessary, low-circulation, and commercially mo tivated. He recommends that physi cists "refuse to subscribe to any new commercially motivated journals, re fuse to accept editorial posts with these journals, and refuse to submit or refer ee papers connected with these jour nals." Heyden's new bimonthly toxicology journal, which is available for $143, "air-speeded service," joins two others that I know about. One was just an nounced in the May 1981 issue of A N A L Y T I C A L C H E M I S T R Y (p 723
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The Society of Toxicology offers a new bimonthly journal entitled Funda mental and Applied Toxicology, available in the U.S. for $50 and else where for $60. The second is Preston's Journal of Analytical Toxicology, which commenced publication in Jan uary 1977. However, since toxicology is basical ly a multidisciplinary field with heavy components in biologically oriented mechanism and effect studies, we use this field only as an example of a trend that also afflicts the analytical field. New publications in our field either duplicate or copy current publications or further subdivide the subdisciplinary areas. The trend tpward further fragmentation is also found in confer ences where there are increasing num bers of limited-interest, one-subject meetings. Oftentimes the rationale for the es tablishment of a new journal is that it will be "international" in scope. In point of fact, most scientific journals, especially those published in English, are international in both their reader
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ship reach and in the research re ported, no matter where published. Data collected by Marianne Brogan of the ACS for the period January to September 1980 showed that 31.09% of papers published in American Chemical Society journals were from authors outside the U.S. For ANALYT ICAL C H E M I S T R Y for the entire year 1980, 28.2% of the research papers originated outside the U.S. This is 183 papers out of a total of 650, which is more than the total output of many small "international" journals. Thirtyone countries were represented, with large numbers of contributions from (in decreasing order) Japan, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Ger many, and the Netherlands. In addi tion, nearly 9700 copies of ANALYTI CAL C H E M I S T R Y are sent outside the U.S. every month. Libraries have become very sophis ticated in gathering information on their users' needs for primary jour nals. An interesting paper in the Feb ruary 1981 issue of the Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, pp 39-42, presents a study made by Barbara Stefjaniak of War saw, Poland. The investigation was carried out on references retrieved by users of the Selective Dissemination of Informa tion (SDI) services of the Chemical In formation Center of the Main Library at Warsaw Technical University. This information center is operated on a national scale, while the SDI system itself is sponsored by three institu tions in Poland. The references re trieved on the basis of all SDI users' profiles from two volumes of Chemical Abstracts Condensates (CACon), Vol umes 86 (January-June 1977) and 89 (July-December 1978) were studied. In both volumes, a relatively small number of journals, e.g., 212 and 220 out of 6209 and 7039 titles, respective ly, supplied 50% of the relevant papers for SDI users. Out of 9074 journals cited in the combined data, the 37 top ones supplied 20% of the papers se lected for users during the period. The paper describes the method of study and compares the results with the CASSI list of journals most frequently cited by Chemical Abstracts. By such
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