Materials Science Forum

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Women, Science and Culture: Science in the Nineteenth-century Periodical. The Victorian periodical press offers unique insights into many diverse areas of nineteenth-century experience, and the complex relations between gender, science and culture in particular, yet it has been consistently marginalized as a primary resource in academic study. The Science in the Nineteenth-century Periodical (SciPer) project at the universities of Sheffield and Leeds is creating a new point of access to a wide range of non-specialist periodicals across the century by means of a fully searchable electronic index. By detailing the entire contents of each journal, and not just those articles that have a clear…

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Research Forum: Periodicals in college libraries: Are the challenges of rising subscription costs being met?. The survey results reported here w ere part of a presentation at a conference on "Seri als: Problems and Prospects" sponsored by the College of Library and Information Science at the University of Kentucky held in February 1990.The author's experience with periodicals in college li braries suggested that the problems which smaller predominantly undergraduate institutions face are different than those o f larger universities which serve graduate students and a large community of research faculty.1 Specifically, the author believed that the escalating costs o f serials which confront.…

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