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
This was sparked by the release of the CIBER report[2]
A number of new ‘one-stop shop’ library products are beginning to be introduced into libraries in the UK, for example, Primo, Aquabrowser and Encore
These products work with a variety of LMS and federated search and linking services to provide a single interface for access to the library catalogue and local and remote databases
Summary
This was sparked by the release of the CIBER report[2]. One of the CIBER conclusions was: ‘We know that younger scholars especially have only a very limited knowledge of the many librarysponsored services that are on offer to them. Academic libraries provide their users with a bewildering array of bibliographic databases, commonly accessed via lengthy lists on web pages: there are over 150 databases on such a list at the University of Bath. The introduction of federated search engines such as MetaLib has provided (in theory at least) a single search box solution to discovering journal articles.
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