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
PERIODICALS are the primary cause of the rapid rise in the cost of library services in the academic and industrial library sectors over the last 10-15 years
Perhaps not unsurprising when pressure from the reader is taken into account and the accepted view that periodicals are vital to the research function, this has not happened until the last 2-3 years, and the balance of collections has increasedly been skewed as monograph purchase has dropped dramatically as libraries strive to maintain their subscriptions
New courses are introduced at universities and polytechnics or a new technology is developed in an industrial firm and as a result new periodical titles are requested
Summary
PERIODICALS are the primary cause of the rapid rise in the cost of library services in the academic and industrial library sectors over the last 10-15 years. This cost-effective and sensible approach broke down in 1990 when we were faced with a substantial drop in our periodicals budget against an inflation level in subscriptions of about 12%. The impact on readers may be lessened as a result of an evaluation of all SRIS periodical holdings carried out during 1990 This exercise will enable us to select more carefully those titles which we feel do not justify retention when measured against price, quality, relevance and a number of reasonable alternatives. There appears to be a reducing interest in scanning when time is short because the return in terms of retrieval of relevant papers is so low
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