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Please excuse the posting to several lists, but I thought that this
situation might be of concern to a number of people in different places.
Our library is offering Current Contents to faculty and students on line,
and it distresses me that the geography journals are slated for
elimination. It is a very good service when we can no longer afford to
route new journal issues to departments. Check the listing below and
send your comments to Mr. Lang ([log in to unmask]).
Alberta
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: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 14:58:24 -0400 (EDT)
: Harold Moellering <[log in to unmask]>
FNEWS -> current contents/geography journal cuts (fwd)
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> From: Jim Proctor <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 14:11:26 -0800
> To: "William S. Lynn" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: current contents/proposed geography journal cuts
>
> Bill -- Could you post a summary of this on the geography listservs you
> subscribe to? This guy needs to hear that we geographers need all those
> journals to be maintained in Current Contents! Thanks -- Jim
>
> >August 9, 1995
> >James D. Proctor
> >Department of Geography
> >University of California
> >Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060
> >
> >Dear Dr. Proctor:
> >
> >I'm writing in response to your e-mail of April 21 concerning the
> >deletion of Geography journals from CURRENT CONTENTS/SOCIAL &
> >BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES. I apologize for the long delay in my
> >response, but sometimes the wheels of change move slowly.
> >Actually, the entire company was reorganized back at the beginning
> >of the year and it took some time to figure out who needed to be
> >consulted for alterations to be made in CC coverage.
> >
> >We received several responses to our change in coverage (strangely
> >enough, most of them from Southern California) and, speaking as the
> >editor of CC/S&BS, I think the wholesale deletion of the
> >"Geography, Planning and Development" category was a little
> >overzealous. I've proposed to the powers-that-be that we review
> >the journals deleted from that area and re-add some of them,
> >folding them into the "Sociology/Anthropology" category.
> >
> >Of course, space is a primary consideration in these matters. I've
> >contacted you because, quite honestly, you were the only respondent
> >who included a list of titles you'd like to see readded.
> >
> >I would greatly appreciate it you could review this list and
> >indicate which you feel are the most central to the discipline.
> >
> >Thank you for your time and your patience in awaiting a response.
> >
> >Best regards,
> >
> >Jeffrey Lang
> >Senior Editor, Social & Behavioral Sciences
> >email address: [log in to unmask]
> >
> >Journals:
> >
> >Annals of the Association of American Geographers 1.710
> >Antipode 1.622
> >Applied Geography 0.395
> >Area 0.871
> >Canadian Geographer 0.506
> >Cartography and Geographic Information Systems 0.108
> >Economic Geography 1.206
> >Geoforum 0.571
> >Geographical Analysis 0.478
> >Geographical Journal 0.581
> >Geographical Review 0.433
> >Geography 0.422
> >Journal of Geography 0.149
> >Journal of Historical Geography 0.805
> >Journal of Rural Studies 0.718
> >Post-Soviet Geography 0.526
> >Professional Geographer 1.100
> >Progress in Human Geography 1.533
> >Scottish Geographical Magazine 0.240
> >Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 0.265
> >Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 1.917
> >Urban Geography 0.710
>
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>
> --
> William S. Lynn
> Geography, University of Minnesota
> 414 Social Science
> Minneapolis, MN 55455
> 612/625-0133
> 612/624-1044 (fax)
> [log in to unmask]
>
--
Harold Moellering, Department of Geography, Ohio State University 43210 USA
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