Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Universities sp ASSOCIATED PRESS CHAPEL HILL, N.C. ? The rising price of scientific and professional journals combined with the unending need for professors to get published has some North Carolina universities looking for _li. jJ alternatives. Large universities spend millions of dollars a year in journal subscriptions, where teachers hope to receive the fleeting honor of having their papers printed inside. ( "To be acknowledged by your peers is a very high mark of quality," said Provost Dick Richardson at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. But most university revenues for articles end with publication. The school relinquishes the copyrights to those articles and all revenues generated by the paper go to the journals' owners. Education experts say universities retaining those copyrights could go a long way toward prevailing over a small number of publishers charging whatever they want to sell the journals scientists must have. Others look toward the Internet and sharing journal costs with other schools as cheaper choices. Commercial publishers "have a monopoly on information," said Robert Peet, an ecology professor at UNCChapel Hill and chairman of a committee examining copyright privileges. ?Ifs not as if we can buy it elsewhere, and we need to have it." UNC-Chapel Hill spent $4.83 million on subscriptions to more than Housing office ANIMALS continued from page 1 Johnstons that they could not lay the Pets Inc. traps on campus. The Gamecock has been unable to find the person who would not allow the traps. Alysia Naig, an art history junior, is concerned for the cats' safety if they remain on campus. "I think it would be really good for someone to come on campus and take them to a place where they can be taken care of," Naig said. Naig said some students can be cruel to animals at times. She also said students could be hurt if they don't use caution when approaching wild ani^ mals. According to Melani Miller, associate director of residence life, the deHome Bring your be in c USC's large I (l MOWPER f THIS MEBL'S CrONNH C llSHOUU'VE frONE Tl >ending millioi 21,000 journals last year, while nearby Duke University paid about $5.23 million for about 32,000 journals. The totals were more than half of the universities' expenditures for library ma icuis. School librarians have had to cul back on subscriptions because of budget constraints. The costs of scientific books and journals rose 169 percent from 1986 to 1997, according to the Association of Research Libraries. "Many universities have had tc trim," said Gordon Rowley, the UNCChapel Hill bibliographer and head oi collection development. "Some have begun to talk about it as an annual exercise." The higher costs are blamed in part on more research being performed today, and journals have grown accordingly, said Karen Hunter, senior vicepresident of Elsevier Science, the world's largest publisher of scientific journals. Commercial publishers would likely frown on schools retaining article copyrights, since they make their money by owning exclusive rights to the work. Hunter said some restrictions on ownersnip must exist Dut aiso said ner . company offers some rights to authors. Meanwhile, many university libraries have banded together to form The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition to create competition for commercial publishers. The coalition ? of which Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill are members?wants to create partnerships with professional associations that publish non-profit ? discourages c partment of housing does not have a problem with Pets Inc. capturing anc placing the animals. It does have a problem with students that capture the animals themselves and keep cats and other pets ir the residence halls. "It's not good to encourage the cats to stay," Miller said. "We have more of a problem the second week in Maj when people who are feeding [the cats] leave." Uampus services has taken care 01 some stray animal problems in the past According to Jerry Schermerhorn assistant director of campus services, the animals are trapped and provided with homes. Schermerhorn was vague as to where the animals were taken, but he did stress that no animals are killed by university employees. WE coming Bright Ideas :harge of ist celebration If He likes Me?) ostml) o D num. J Ir? f r/ Help c ^<7 recah as on journals Stl } FOO journals. The coalition already has I forged ties with the American Chemi- ^ i cal Society to produce three new chem- whetri ical journals over the next three years. A siihsrrintinn fn thp npw irmrnnl will sell for about $2,300 a year, far less ^ a ; than the $8,000 price tag for the comparable commercial journal. : In North Carolina, four universities tnisy ; linked by a common computer system ^ox S? allow students access to journals sub- kcott, scribed to by each of the schools. The s s* i Triangle Research Library Network in- , eludes Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, N.C. Sco^; f State University and N.C. Central Universijty.. cause i "We're able to rely on the other cam- fo?tba puses for some of the titles we don't smce have," said David Ferriero, the Duke a ^an University hbrarian. ? ??* Another resource is the Internet. ? y ^ Professors have placed articles not pubi lished in journals on their own personal r;k Web pages as a way for researchers to offer information to their peers. tigers rosting lniormation on me weD, at least for a limited time, gives scientists "A J more exposure than they've been 1^1 used to in the past, Peet said. X J But the Web can't replace publication in a renowned journal. Publication ASSO in peer-review journals is generally seen as the pinnacle of the research profes- MAN sion. Journals weed out inferior work, worke but anyone can post information on a Sunde Web page. a crat 1 "It's a vision that a lot of people and r( ? share, but it hasn't been worked out yet villag 1 ? how to merge the Internet with what blame ; the journals offer," Peet said. rose t Ai bodies matching strays -n hurri i However, the-Johnstons are con- causii I cerned that the animals are being tak- a fata en to animal control, where they might duras be killed if no one claims them and a Amer home is not lound quickly. Tr i Schermerhorn said the idea of Pets tal an Inc. coining on campus and capturing helico i the animals is a good idea, but that it flood < s must be cleared through Charlie Jeff- sar Ci r coat, director of facilities management. a likel I Jeffcoat said he is willing to work electi< with the Johnstons and Pets Inc. Th F Ann Johnston said she would no- reach tify Jeffcoat within the next week to fi- found , nalize the arrangements of coming on spoke; , campus. Rescu in fou 150 mil Ai on the urday rojfi i |ElIUll 32000 I ^0 1 I "W" Carolina productions ?? lew donors can earn ip to $215 ter month! ours of your time could earn iu up to $65 in one week! :bildren, hemophiliacs aad heart patients who * products made from the plasma of oar doaors. X ix m i xx? The Quality Source *$?( NABI BioMedical Center rr 5 Assembly St., Columbia SC 29201 254-2280 idents give opinior fBALL continuedfrom page 1 ins have mixed opinions of 1 ier Snntt. is trpttintr t.hfi inh done ( phomore Maxi Cox, who works trolina Classics, a student team ' ssists with recruitment, thinks 1 does not deserve to be fired. 1 re lost so many talented players 1 ;ar, and we can't win all the time," ! lid. "Everybody's blaming Brad but everybody I talk to thinks '< ill doing a great job." phomore Nick Crawford thinks ! 3 time is up. ormally I wouldn't say, just be- ' of one losing season, that the head 1 11 coach needs to be fired, but ever 1 le came here we've been told that ( l worthy of a title was just around ner," Crawford said. "So far, we've 1 tad a mediocre team since he's ^ lere." 5C fans are not alone in their woes, emson fans have watched their ?amass a 2-7 record this season. [itch kills CIATEP PRESS i AGUA, Nicaragua ? Rescue ;rs recovered hundreds of bodies ly from communities buried when er lake overflowed and sent mud j >ck hurtling down a volcano onto ( es below. The confirmed deaths ;d on one-time Hurricane Mitch ] o 982. ] ithorities feared that many more j 3 would be found in 10 villages at i )t of the Casitas Volcano in north- j icaragua. ] itch was one of the most violent icanes to hit the Caribbean, , lg heavy rain and floods as it cut .1 path along the coasts of Hon- j , Nicaragua and other Central j ican countries. 1 le mayor of the Honduran capi- j d three others died Sunday in a , ipter crash while out surveying 1 damage. Tegucigalpa Mayor Ce- ( astellanos, 49, had been seen as ] y candidate for president in 2001 rns. i le first army rescue helicopters to , the Casitas volcano on Sunday , widespread destruction, army i Portf ATilfAT\ dnn/^Atrnl ooi/^ 3111CU1 Vapt. XfJLLIIA/JLi UOliUUVOi OCUU. ( e workers recovered 360 bodies j r villages near Posoltega, about ] es northwest of Managua, iver of mud and rubble collapsed i villages late Friday or early Sat- ^ after a crater lake near the vol- ^ Jsey wit The Associates! college e Your dollars go f 3% cash ba< No annual f Credit line i to $2,500 I To apply, ( 1-888-SE > Rebate Terms and Conditi ?r more information and gre www.studen f is on football coach LJSC plays at Clemson Nov. 21, and Clemson fans say the fierceness of the traditional rivalry will be just as strong, despite each team's lackluster season. "We feel bad that we are struggling, but it doesn't change over to sympathy for the Gamecocks," Clemson sophomore Chris Carroll said. "The ClemsonLJSC game is a different entity in itself." The game will be televised nationally on ESPN2. "I hope we can at least win that *ame," Smith said. "It's bad enough th&t both teams are bad ... but since this game is getting televised it might be a chance to redeem ourselves on the national levil." Td just like to see Carolina on [tele/ision] and not being laughed at," Crawford said. i 082 in Cfl cano's peak overflowed and caused part of the mountain to crumble, Sandoval lit said. m Only 92 of the estimated 2,000 area of residents had been found alive, some er injured, and the remainder were list- m ed as missing, Sandoval said. m Rescuers aboard the first army he- h< licopters to reach the communities found hundreds of decomposing bodies, he w said. One hundred soldiers working at hi the scene were burying the rotting bod- w ies where they lay because of public health concerns, Sandoval said. tilt was unclear how many residents la of the villages of El Porvenir, Versalles, fit Rolando Rodriguez and Santa Narcisa d< may have fled in time to avoid the mud- d< slide. Dr. Marcos Espinosa said in a telephone interview that 126 survivors cc from the four villages had been treat- ta ed at a hospital in Chinandega for "fractures and serious wounds" that had be- m lome infected after the victims spent th nearly two days in the mud. sii A woman who claimed to have sur- 5, rived the disaster told Radio Nicaragua 3n Sunday that she had seen "many n< nnburied bodies" in orchards near the 3( volcano. The survivor, Mercedes Ro- fie iriguez Zapata, said she left the area T; Saturday and traveled on foot and ci horseback to the capital, Managua, de Unconfirmed radio reports said as nany as 4,000 people may have died ar vhen mudslides struck in the north- sti vestern province of Chinandega. to ourde hsens Student Visa? can help' xpenses with fewer wc urther with all these gr ck on purchases* ee JP call toll free ND-ONE. ons accompanying the credit ca :at discounts, visit our Web site a tcreditcard.com. 4 Community supports facility's new location CENTER continued from page 1 "The university's mission is research, teaching and service," Freeman said. "This move has highlighted those." Corning said the move has not caused the center to lose any customers. In fact, she said, the community "encouraged support." According to the center's employees and parents, the university is committed to the center, and the move has been positive. "It doesn't matter if we're in trailers or $5 million buildings, the kids are happy and that's what matters," tftey saia. iribbean Elsewhere Sunday, army rescue hecopters flew 52 famished and ailing en, women and children from the town ' San Francisco Libre, on the north n banks of Managua Lake, about 25 iles north of the capital. In that cornunity alone, 1,600 families were left cmeless. One survivor, Candido Mejia, 58, as so weak that he could barely give s name after he and his two children ere airlifted to safety. Townspeople said they had to climb ees and onto roofs last week when the ke's edge advanced by two miles and ooded the farming community. No jaths were reported, but many resimts had not eaten for several days. Rescue workers left behind rice, irn, beans and other provisions before iking the sick to get medical care. Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Alean called the flooding and mudslides le country's worst natural disaster nee a magnitude-6.2 earthquake killed 000 people in 1972. By late Sunday, Mitch's winds, once jar 180 mph, had dropped to about ) mph, and the storm ? now classixl as a tropical depression ? was near apachula, on Mexico's southern Pafic coast near the Guatemalan bor;r. Mitch was moving west at 8 mph id was dissipating, but threatened to rengthen again if it moved back out sea. -vll? ^ J IkMS se. you manage >rries. eat benefits. ? m'iii it 9 ?