Re: proceedings and journals


benlizro@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
André G. Isaak wrote:
In article <1153777864.105662.66740@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


benlizross wrote:
Peter T. Daniels wrote:

Proceedings of regular
meetings tend to become volumes in a series, or independent books.. Of
course occasionally linguistics is published in the Proc. Nat. Acad.
Sci., but they tend to be on the level of papers in its journal Science.

If BLS and CLS volumes appear annually and can be paid for by
subscription, does that make them journals? This has always bothered me.

Maybe it's different now, but in my day there was no possibility for an
individual, at least, to "subscribe" to the CLS volumes. For one thing,
there was no permanent CLS staff, just the three officers who were
elected each year, normally from second-year students (i.e., before
anyone had time to get burned out). I don't know how they or who
handled library orders. (Hey, that doesn't seem ungrammatical, though
it would seem to violate the Coordinate Structure Constraint!)

I believe there was a time when you could subscribe to NELS (no
permanent staff there AFAIK either, but subscriber lists can still be
passed down), though I still would not consider it to be a journal.

Agreed, and I'm not sure our library ever had a "subscription", as
opposed to a standing order, for any of these. The reason it became an
issue was that ordering books for the library was quite
straightforward, but getting a new journal subscription was a complex
and difficult process which could take years.

Curious. The U Chicago libraries vastly preferred to treat the most
tenuous publisher's series as an entity they could subscribe to, as
opposed to ordering individual volumes.

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