Subsequent Demand for Ripped-Off Journal Articles |
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| Abstract: | During the past 15 years academic libraries have experienced an epidemic of thefts of journal articles and issues. Since 1975, the SUNY Stony Brook Library Periodicals Reading Room has operated a "Ripoff File" of copies of articles that readers have reported missing from the bound volumes of periodicals in the bookstacks where books and serials in general subjects, humanities and social sciences are housed. Analysis of records kept 1978-87 shows that 9 percent of the current journal titles appear in the file; that humanities articles are less used than the social science materials and that within the social science psychology journals are the most ripped off and the most wanted subsequently. Ripoff rates and subsequent usage are predictable from previous trends and, in the social sciences, are positively associated with the number of students enrolled in related programs. |
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