Mary Guerrieri
library@noao.edu

The University of Chicago Press has moved! The new address is:

1427 E. 60th St.
Chicago, IL 60637-2954
Phone and FAX remain the same.

Beginning with the January 2001 issue, Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series merges with the main journal, Astronomy and Astrophysics, which is now published by EDP Sciences rather than Springer. The new journal web site is http://www.edpsciences.org/aa/.

The list of free astronomical newsletters has been updated at http://sesame.stsci.edu/lib/NEWSLETTER.htm.

Great news for planetary people! The "Consolidated Lunar Atlas" is online at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/research/cla/menu.html, and the "Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon" is available at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/research/lunar%5Forbiter/index.html.

Sarah Stevens-Rayburn, PAM liaison to the AAS, reported on the AAS Pub Board meeting. The main points of this summary included: explanation of the the 9.6% increase in the cost of 2001 ApJ institutional subscriptions; the increasing amount of electronic-only enhancements to the AJ, and the fact that these additions make the print version a subset of the online issue; the suggestion that AAS create a formal archival policy statement to determine what will be included in the permanent archive for a journal; the possibility of listserving issue contents to non-subscribers; possible extended cooperation with LANL; and news that UCP is participating in the Crossref Project. For specifics, contact Sarah, library@stsci.edu.

Sarah also reminded us that the AAS grants former Soviet countries and eastern European nations discounted subscriptions and free electronic to ApJ and AJ (posted in reply to Dan Agin's message calling on publishers and professional organizations to assist developing countries in access scientific information for use in research and education. Dan Agin is Editor/Publisher of ScienceWeek; for information on the ScienceWeek access policy, see http://www.scienceweek.com/freesub.htm.)

And finally, follow-up to two queries posted by Ruth Kneale. Ruth received nine responses to her query regarding what to do with out-of-date computer books; the replies were split on putting them up for donation and discarding them. The two most prevalent reasons given for donation were that a library might use them for a collection on the history of computing, or that a local public library might benefit from their sale.

Ruth's other posting asked who was still sending out hard-copy preprints, and who was still accepting and posting preprints from other institutions. Of the 19 replies, only seven institutions still send out paper preprints (36.8%) whereas 16 of the 19 respondents still post any paper preprints they receive from other institutions (84.2%). Most of the respondents also said that authors now individually post their papers to astro-ph.