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To the Editor.— I agree with Howard W. Huntington, MD (241:1327, 1979), that something needs to be done to increase the readability and informational content of journals. His points are well taken concerning the increase in physical size of journals, such as Cancer , and the price of journals, such as Brain Research . However, he failed to mention that libraries as well as the health professional feel the crunch, because libraries are running out of both the room to house the volumes and the money to purchase the new journal titles that come out each year. In 1970, Index Medicus indexed more than 2,200 journals; in 1979, there are more than 2,500 journals being indexed. In other words, approximately 30 new titles are added each year. This means that libraries will probably order some of the new titles and must find space to shelve the added volumes. More important, the libraries
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