Which is a better purchase of magazine?

Billboard Magazine on Microfiche to Purchase.

• I do not need chart info that is available in currently available chart books. I am looking for Microfiche sheets of complete years of Billboard magazine from the late 1970s and all of the 1980s. There was a company online 3 years ago with a catalog of periodicals available to purchase on microfiche, but I can not locate that company now. I've been told that I can find publisher info on copies of the 'fiche themselves, but haven't been to a library to look it up.

• Answer:

  Hello there. Billboard Magazine is available in microfiche format from the University Microfilms Inc (UMI) service known as SIM -- Serials in Microfilm: http://wwwlib.umi.com/sim/ Select your "Area of Work" and "Location" options from the pull-down menus at the bottom of the page, which will take you to the SIM Catalog page: http://wwwlib.umi.com/sim/menu Enter "Billboard" in the "publication title" search box, and you'll be taken to a results page: http://wwwlib.umi.com/sim/title/detail?title_key=9334 Billboard microfiche is available from 1973 to the current year -- collections from the late 70's-80's timeframe cost $297.70 per year. I trust this is the information you need. Before rating this answer, however, please let me know if you need anything else. Just post a Request for Clarification, and I'll be happy to assist you further. pafalafa-ga Search strategy: Searched the WorldCat database at my local library for [ Billboard ] and saw the microfiche was made available by UMI/SIM. A Google Search for [ university microfilms inc ] led me to the SIM site.