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crl-15047	Metz, Paul; Stemmer, John	A Reputational Study of Academic Publishers	1996-05-01	15	.pdf	application/pdf	7315	299	49	In his discussion, Goedeken made the unsurprising obser- vation that Calhoun and Bracken's asser- tion that their ratios represented a mea- surement of publisher quality had gen- erated controversy based, in part, on the validity of comparisons between the book lists of university presses and trade pub- lishers.4 Although relevance and quality are plainly subjective attributes about which no one would expect to find scientifically validated or conclusive data, the impor- tance to librarians of having some reliable 236 College & Research Libraries basis for publisher judgments contrasts strikingly with the paucity of any sort of information on the topic. In the near absence of data that might indi- cate the overall perceptions the collection development community has about academic publishers, the authors distributed a reputational as- sessment survey to a national sample of heads of collection develop- ment in academic libraries.	cache/crl-15047.pdf	txt/crl-15047.txt