Abstract
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community has been digitised and can be accessed in full on this website. All content is freely available on an open-access basis. Serials was published between 1988 and 2011. In 2012, the journal was retitled and is now published as Insights: the UKSG journal.
Highlights
During the last few years the problems faced by academic libraries in sustaining their journals collection have become increasingly severe
- The statistics make depressing reading according to the Follett report, between 1980 and 1992 the number of titles listed in U1rich's International Periodicals Directory rose from 62000 to 126000, while the Blackwells Periodicals Price Index rose by nearly 300%'
Academic library budgets have not increased at anything like the same level, and the public expenditure cuts in 1995have exacerbated the problem2.Electronic delivery mechanismsmay provide the solution in the future, but at present university libraries am faced by finding a way of restraining journal expenditure, unpopular though this is with academic staff
Summary
The recent public expenditure cuts have meunt that m y academic libraries me having to take an rn more rigorous approach to their journals collection, rationalking their holding in accordance with static or reduced budgets. Making use of the voting method for periodical evaluation, this ppr outlines how one library evaluated the existing journals and the demand for new titles in the field of engineering. The benejits and pitfalls of the technique are outlined. Jill Lmnbert is Senior Assistant Librarian (Enginaennaenandg)Sue Taylor is Senior Tutor Librarian Library and Information Service, Nelson Library, St#rdshire Unimmity, Beaconside, Staffordshire STl8 OYU
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