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This study explores new faculty members' and librarians' perceptions of a program that provides each new faculty member with funds to purchase materials supporting their teaching and scholarship. The article describes the results of a survey of perceptions of the faculty and librarians who have participated in the program at Illinois State University. The findings suggest that the program has not been successful as a recruitment tool but has been very valuable for establishing early and strong subject liaison relationships with new faculty members.

Conservation biology is a multidisciplinary subject of recent origins. Analysis of cited monographs from the journal Conservation Biology resulted in a list of 47 monographs which were heavily cited for this discipline. Over half of these were from related disciplines such as ecology, genetics, evolution, population biology, statistics, and natural resource management. Thus, monographs heavily cited in Conservation Biology, the research journal of the Society for Conservation Biology, could be considered to comprise a core list of books for this discipline. Viera (1990) listed monographs and periodicals which she considered important for conservation biology, but they were selected on a subjective basis. This paper attempts to quantitatively identify by means of citation analysis a group of English-language monographs needed to support research in conservation biology. Methodology Data were compiled for English-language monographs appearing in the literature cited section of any article, essay, letter, or book review in eight issues of the journal Conservation Biology (Table 1).

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This multi-part bibliographic essay identifies the most relevant issues about the publishing of scholarly electronic journals: Access, Cataloging and Indexing, Pricing, Archiving, and Licensing. Each of these issues merits careful consideration in its own right; however, as these essays demonstrate, the issues are vast, complex, and very interdependent. These sections ask questions such as: Who will take the responsibility for archiving? Will data remain unaltered after publication? Will libraries still have access to archival copies after canceling a subscription? The sections below highlight the current debates on each topic and provide references to sources of further study.