Life spans of Library Journal's “Best Magazines of the Year”

S. Black

DOI:10.1080/00987913.2009.10765248
Corpus ID: 60969160

Life spans of Library Journal's “Best Magazines of the Year”

@article{Black2009LifeSO,
  title={Life spans of Library Journal's “Best Magazines of the Year”},
  author={Steve Black},
  journal={Serials Review},
  year={2009},
  volume={35},
  pages={213 - 217}
}

S. Black
Published 1 December 2009
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Serials Review

Abstract An annual column published in Library Journal reviews the best new magazines of the previous year. Despite being chosen for their quality, a portion of them fail at a rate described in this study. Reasons for failure and characteristics of ceased titles are described, as are difficulties in determining end dates from records in OCLC, Ulrich's, and the Serials Directory. This study reveals that OCLC records had not been closed for 30 percent of the ceased periodicals. A list of…

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Failure Rates and Publication Status: Periodicals Reviewed in Library Journal (1980–2005) and Database Accuracy

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Computer Science
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Abstract Life spans of periodicals are described for all titles reviewed in Library Journal's (LJ) “Magazines” column from 1980 through 2005 using data from WorldCat, EBSCO's Serials Directory and…

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