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From Your Editor
Katina Strauch
Letters to the Editor
Katina Strauch
Features
Scatter and Save! An evaluation of the Adoption of Centralised Classification and Outsourcing
Eileen Hiller
Training the New Selector
Thomas Izbicki
Looking for Approval? Changing Approval Plan Vendors
Kenneth L. Kirkland
Mergers and Acquisitions-Regarding Medusa
Linda Defendeifer
Op-Ed-Opinions and Editorials-Murder by Ignorance
Thomas W. Leonhardt
Back Talk-Be Careful What You Wish For
Anthony W. Ferguson
ATG Interviews
Gary Wilson, Director, ESCN Database Reports
Katina Strauch
Ursula Springer, President, Springer Publishing Company
Katina Strauch
Profiles Encouraged
Reviews
From the Reference Desk
Tom Gilson
Legal Issues
Legally Speaking-Hyperflow versus Matthew Bender
Troy C. Johnson, Jr.; Jack G. Montgomery; and Anne F. Jennings
Cases of Note-Paramount Pictures Corporation v. Carol Publishing Group and Ty, Inc. v. West Highland Publishing, Inc. and Highview Recording, LLC
Bruce Strauch, Jack G. Montgomery, and Anne F. Jennings
Copyright Questions and Answers
Laura N. Gasaway, Jack G. Montgomery, and Anne F. Jennings
Publishing
Book Pricing Update-Online Acquisitions Tools and Prices
William P. Kane
Publisher Profile-Grove's Dictionaries
Matt Nauman
Publisher Bestsellers-University Press of Kentucky
Julia A. Gammon
Biology Bestsellers for 1998
Francoise Crowell and Bob Nardini
On The Street-Out of Print Searching on the World Wide Web
Eamon T. Fennessy, Linda Albright, and Kathy Miraglia
Bookselling and Vending
And They Were There-Reports of Meetings-Alternative Models of Scholarly Publishing in Higher Education
Sever Bordeianu and Julia Gelfand
Biz of Acq-To License or Not to License-That Really Ought to Be the Question
Rick Anderson and Rob Richards
Bet You Missed It
Pamela M. Rose
Technology and Standards
Wandering the Web-Children's Literature:Selected Resources
Ruth Kinnersly, Sandra K. Paul, and Albert Simmonds
We Used to Call It Publishing-New Intellectual Property Pathways
Judith Appelbaum, Sandra K. Paul, and Albert Simmonds
Chaos-XML and Its Potential for ECommerce
Norman Desmarais, Sandra K. Paul, and Albert Simmonds
Webworthy-More Interesting Internet Sites
Pamela M. Rose, Sandra K. Paul, and Albert Simmonds
Group Therapy-How to handle offers of access to online editions of print journals when the access is by registration and password
Rosann Bazirjian, Sandra K. Paul, and Albert Simmonds
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