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The UK Serials Group

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  • This issue, which comes to you just before the UKSG 16th Annual Conference meeting at the University of Southampton, reflects the papers which were presented at the Second European Serials Conference which took place in the Autumn of 1992 at Noordwijkerhout in the Netherlands

  • Not enough money to keep pace with serials' inflation, how to maintain a sensible collection which reflects the needs of the user communities, to what extent are the promises of electronic publishing to be realised and what effects will that revolution have on the traditional information chain

  • This last concern was presented in a novel light by Cliff McKnight of HUSAT who looked at the notion of the electronic journal from the user's point of view

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This last concern was presented in a novel light by Cliff McKnight of HUSAT who looked at the notion of the electronic journal from the user's point of view. This issue, which comes to you just before the UKSG 16th Annual Conference meeting at the University of Southampton, reflects the papers which were presented at the Second European Serials Conference which took place in the Autumn of 1992 at Noordwijkerhout in the Netherlands. His article, based on his Conference presentation, traces the development of various initiatives in electronic publishing over recent years and isolates some of the pros and cons of the medium.

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