Hi Jessica,
No, don’t return them. Some publishers legitimately hope you will be impressed and want to subscribe, but they would not send issues if they were not surplus--in others words, they don’t want them back. Others send issues for 6 or 9 or 12 months and then send you an invoice, hoping you will make a mistake and pay it! You and your institution have no obligation for any materials you have not ordered.
Cheers!
Judith
Judith E. Stokes, Associate Professor
Electronic Resources Librarian
Rhode Island College, AL203
600 Mount Pleasant Avenue
Providence, RI 02908
401.456.8165
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Jessica Harris
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 9:17 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Print journals arriving that we don't subscribe to
All,
Lately, my institution has been receiving print issues of journals we don't subscribe to. Does this happen at any of your libraries very often? If so, what do you do with them? My inclination is to just recycle them, but I'm wondering if anyone takes the time to send them back to the publisher instead.
Any help you can give is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Jessica Harris
Electronic Resources Librarian
University Library
Santa Clara University
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053
408-554-5356
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