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
Since the mid-1980s the journal world has been increasingly beset by change and uncertainty
Librariansno longer accept the need to own a comprehensiveserials collection. They increasingly see themselves as facilitators, providing access to information, rather than as passive owners and archivists
High capacity broad-band electronic networks linking universities and research institutes - and the commercial world internationallywill become available in the mid
Summary
Since the mid-1980s the journal world has been increasingly beset by change and uncertainty. The ongoing debate within the library community has been demibed, perhaps simplistically, as one about "access versus ownership". Librariansno longer accept the need to own a comprehensiveserials collection.
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