From lpsmail@access.digex.netWed Dec 20 09:15:00 1995 Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 15:30:05 CST From: Shipment Reply to: Discussion of Government Document Issues To: Multiple recipients of list GOVDOC-L Subject: ADNOTES: ABRIDGED MONTHLY CATALOG IN JAN. '96 ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- THE MESSAGE BELOW IS FROM ADMINISTRATIVE NOTES, VOL. 16, #17 (Dec. 15, 1995). ABRIDGED MONTHLY CATALOG MAKES DEBUT IN JANUARY CD-ROM Edition to Follow Periodicals Supplement to Appear Only in CD-ROM Edition The January, 1996 issue of the Monthly Catalog will be the first issue of the abridged paper edition. The abridged version will contain minimal data in each record. Records will include OCLC numbers and will be accessible via a single key word index. We anticipate that the page counts for the paper edition will decline from an average of approximately 780 pages per issue to approximately 200 pages per issue. The reduction in the size of each issue allows us to reduce the price from the current $234.00 per year to $65.00 per year. We will no longer publish cumulative indices in paper. We anticipate publishing the initial CD-ROM edition of the Monthly Catalog during the first months of 1996. The Periodicals Supplement, which has been published as a separate paper issue of the Monthly Catalog, will now appear only on the CD-ROM edition. The CD-ROM Monthly Catalog and the abridged paper edition are depository items. Regional depositories may select both, but other depositories may select either the CD or the paper but not both. The abridged paper and the CD-ROM Monthly Catalog appeared on Survey number 96-001, dated October 27, 1995. The price for the CD-ROM edition has been established at $245 per year for 12 issues. Issues cumulate so that a year's worth of records will be available in the December issue of each year. At present, we are considering cumulating two or more year's data in a single CD. We have considered issuing a retrospective product that would combine Monthly Catalog records from 1976 through 1995, but have not had sufficient opportunities to weigh costs/benefits and technical issues associated with such a product. The CD-ROM product does not have a locate function. We do intend to work towards this objective as we refine the product. If you are interested in a locate function, please use the WWW GPO Locator. This application links Monthly Catalog records with the names and addresses of libraries known to have selected specific titles. Access to this application is available at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/. We maintain records at this site from January, 1994 through the present.