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
As part of the task of managing our journal collections at King’s we undertake regular stock checks
Stock checks of print journals have long been a feature of good serials management, but there has not been an equivalent for e-journals
Stock check is a misleading term since we are not checking if every volume/issue is available online – we would need an army of robots to do that
Summary
As part of the task of managing our journal collections at King’s we undertake regular stock checks This involves going to the shelves and checking our print holdings against the catalogue and noting differences – usually missing issues and volumes, but just occasionally titles held but not listed. Stock check is a misleading term since we are not checking if every volume/issue is available online – we would need an army of robots to do that It should more realistically be termed an e-journal accessibility check. Stephen Prowse and Catrin Sly Stock checking e-journals: the experience of KCL using a spreadsheet to store all our information about e-journals, since September 2005 we have been making use of SFX to produce online listing and search facilities. The additional content or not, thereby giving users the impression that we subscribe to more content than we do
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