institutions in Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Norway, and
Switzerland. CLIP will begin in 1996 with fifty to a hundred current periodicals and
gradually expand back in time and beyond northern Europe. The data base will be in
English.
The Professional Periodicals in Children’s Literature (Reetz 1994) contains descriptions
with addresses of over two hundred periodicals, but it is not complete. Although updates
appear every few years, they are in danger of being out of date shortly after publication,
given the fluidity of periodicals. With desktop publishing, it is easy for a newsletter to
become a bulletin and then grow into a fullyfledged journal. Particularly in the USA,
where those working in higher education must publish in order to receive promotion and
tenure, the flood of articles reaching editors of existing journals can be overwhelming.
On the other hand, libraries all over the world are facing budget cuts, and rather than
taking on new periodicals, many are terminating the ones to which they already
subscribe. Specialised journals in other disciplines have started to publish on-line on
the Internet, and on-line publication may be the wave of the future for some children’s
literature journals. Just as the first years of the twentieth century saw the beginnings of
what was to become a flood of children’s literature journals, its closing years may signal
the beginning of a decrease in the number of such journals that appear in print.
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