Creative chronology and bibliographies?

Ok. Just got one in the mail that has 2005 on the cover. However, the copyright on the inside says "2010"....If I was still teaching and I put a limit on the last several years of research, how would I know if the student was being diligent or not with that journal? Technically, the 2005 issue would be the last published and it came out in 2010, but...

I also enjoy prepub articles online....since with a lot of them there is no numbering if it is just full text, how do you cite that thing? Especially with the internal citation which requires author name and page number? I have seen quite a few that have the entire page span put at the beginning of the article, but then no pagination is given.

I think I prefer JSTOR, MUSE or other sites that faithly reprint or create pdf images of the articles. And JSTOR used to provide citation help on how to list a JSTOR article in a bibliography.

Prepub web publishing of serials contents

Prepublishing onto a proprietary website or database the can create a problems for people dealing with serials. The main problem is that professors see the abstract or the advertising for the website and automatically assume that the library or corporation has access to the full content. There is often a time lag between when it is prepublished on that proprietary website and the availability of print or electronic access elsewhere. The serials person is then left trying to hunt down some other means of access or document delivery and can result in an irate patron who needed access when it was first requested.