Taxacom: [KU SUSPECT SPAM] reprints

[Peter Uetz]

The American herp societies have silent auctions for reprints.
You may donate yours for a similar purpose to some society.
That can provide much needed income for societies.

I have almost completely digitized my reprint collection. Some thoughts about that are here:
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Papers from the 1950s to 1990s may be especially cherished because they are often not available online yet and still behind copyright / paywalls.

Peter



> On Jun 28, 2022, at 5:39 AM, Robert Zuparko via Taxacom <taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:
> 
> As someone who treasures my own reprint collection, it pains me to tell you
> to prepare to toss the vast majority into the recycling bin. Declining
> resources available to museums and life science institutions means adopting
> the most cost effective measures. And acquiring, cataloguing and finding
> the storage capability for paper reprints is an additional cost that these
> institutions just can't afford, when there is so much literature now
> available electronically. I had the sad job of trying to salvage the
> reprint collection of two organizations - in one case I was lucky to
> salvage 50%, and in the other, almost nil.
> 
> That said, if you publish the subject matters involved, you might find
> someone who might be interested in a part of the collection, but I would be
> surprised if you manage to save it all.
> 
> -Bob Zuparko
> 
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 7:34 PM Frederick W. Schueler via Taxacom <
> taxacom at lists.ku.edu <mailto:taxacom at lists.ku.edu>> wrote:
> 
>> Taxacomers,
>> 
>> We have received 115 Rubbermaid bins of the paper files and documents of
>> a deceased colleague. This colleague was sort of semi-estranged from his
>> institution, and we're hoping to get the institution to take back his
>> correspondence and institutional files, but there is a huge collection
>> of reprints, dating back to the 1950s, and we wonder what we should plan
>> to do about these.
>> 
>> I'm not necessarily asking for advice, but just stories about how others
>> have dealt with massive collections of reprints.
>> 
>> fred.




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Peter Uetz
Center for Biological Data Science
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA 23284
USA

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