Abstract
This paper had as its brief, for the concluding session of the 2005 UKSG conference, to overview issues within the conference, and hopefully within an entertaining framework. Readers of this article should therefore also refer to the UKSG web site at http://www.uksg.org/events/previous.asp#2005conf for my PowerPoint presen tation which contains a significant amount of pictorial material. Topics covered include the recurring historical nature of the 'serial crisis', the open access movement, the costs of serials at both the 'front end' and 'back end', institutional repositories and the relationship of the academic book in elec tronic form to serial trends.
Highlights
When I first thought about a word play on serials, I thought I would restrict comments to the title, but it is possible to take comparisons with cereals a little further
David Stam recounts in his short history of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), ‘Plus ça change’, that an item for the first meeting on 29 December 1932 was the rising cost of serials[1]
What is required is a well-balanced information diet from publications made with ‘research proven ingredients’, especially for authors, that is, one that meets the requirements of the various national Research Assessment Exercises (RAEs)
Summary
This paper had as its brief, for the concluding session of the 2005 UKSG conference, to overview issues within the conference, and hopefully within an entertaining framework. Readers of this article should refer to the UKSG web site at http://www.uksg.org/events/previous.asp#2005conf for my PowerPoint presentation which contains a significant amount of pictorial material.Topics covered include the recurring historical nature of the ‘serial crisis’, the open access movement, the costs of serials at both the ‘front end’ and ‘back end’, institutional repositories and the relationship of the academic book in electronic form to serial trends
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