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

  • Imperial College London is a world leading university, specializing in science, engineering, medicine and business

  • Part of the space-saving strategy outlined in the Vision revolves around withdrawing or relegating print holdings to closed access if we have electronic access: ‘Some areas once used predominantly for the storage of printed collections will be transformed into flexible, inspirational spaces for student learning

  • The Bethesda[7] and Berlin[8] Declarations on OA include perpetual access in their definitions[9], we discovered that not all so called ‘open access journals’ meet this criterion of permanency

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Summary

Background

Imperial College London is a world leading university, specializing in science, engineering, medicine and business. Collecting data on sustainability Information on perpetual access rights was initially sourced from our licences By this means we hoped to gather information on the majority of our big deal titles. ■ show all print titles at a specific location which are overlapped by fully sustainable electronic holdings, highlighting any site restrictions, and include the stack where shelved and meterage figures. We plan to convert the front-end of the database, including the forms and reports, to a web-based interface

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