Casey's right that both paper and electronic data can be hard to access.
  But not impossible. All the ohio-birds postings, going back into the
'90s, are available by way of archival search engines like
waybackmachine. And of course the electronic future of eBird or similar
entities cannot be certain.
        I have no idea whether the OOS, the current owner, is interested in
putting back issues of the Ohio Cardinal online, and I'd rather they
publish the six issues they are behind, but many state journals (an
excellent example is The Kingbird, from New York: see
http://www.nybirds.org/KBsearch.htm ) now have both paper and searchable
electronic archives, in addition to those of the national publications.
And UMMZ has always subscribed, and most issues are at the Akron Public
Library. History has proved paper records can survive for thousands of
years; otherwise we'd have very little history. Electronic ones have yet
to prove anything like this. Would anyone like some 8-inch disks?
Bill Whan
Columbus

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