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The rank order of periodicals requested from the British Library Lending Division shows a low stability over time.These findings suggest that the citation-count approach recommended by Broadus should be used with considerable caution.obert Broadus' paper on the use of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) for reducing periodical subscriptions is interesting, but like other papers on this topic it misses a crucial practical issue.Stephen Bensman's paper is equally interesting; some of the comments below apply to it also.Librarians want to know (1) what periodicals to cancel if they are short of funds and ( 2) what additional titles to buy.For both purposes, apart from new titles in the case of (2), they are concerned with titles at the fringe of use.
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