Health Sciences Journals to Move to Dunbar Library
As the next step in the consolidation of the Fordham and Dunbar Libraries, the University Libraries will begin moving the health sciences journals currently housed in the Medical Sciences building to the bound journals collection on the second floor of the Dunbar Library.
The first step in the process will be to reduce the size of both collections so that they can be combined in the existing space. To accomplish this, the Libraries will have to reduce the number of years that are held on campus in both libraries from the current 20 years to 10 years. Library staff will begin the process of removing all volumes prior to 2000 in the next few weeks. While this is being done, the volumes that are to be moved from Fordham to Dunbar will be assigned call numbers and labeled so that they can be interfiled with the existing collection in Dunbar. We hope to complete this process as quickly as possible in order to reduce the amount of time that the health sciences journals are in storage.
Many of the journals that will be removed are available online through JSTOR or the OhioLINK EJC. In other cases, we have purchased online backfiles from the publisher. If the volumes that are being removed are available in one of these stable online archives, they will be withdrawn. The other volumes to be removed will either be transferred to the regional depository or withdrawn, depending on their availability through the OhioLINK consortia.