Freely accessible articles from recent issues of Serials

Serials is available as open access for all articles older than 12 months. The following is a current list of key articles from more recent issues that we hope will be of interest to you:

An introduction to the JISC Academic Database Assessment Tool
Liam Earney
DOI: 10.1629/22199
Volume 22, Issue 2, pp 113-121
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‘To every thing there is a season’: reflections on the sustainability of the ‘big deal’ in the current economic climate
Updated from a paper presented at the 32nd UKSG Conference, Torquay, March/April 2009
Jill Taylor-Roe
DOI: 10.1629/22113
Volume 22, Issue 2, pp 113-121
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A personal perspective on accessing academic information in the Google era, or ‘How I learned to stop worrying and love Google’
Based on a breakout session presented at the 32nd UKSG Conference, Torquay, March/April 2009 by the author of the winning essay in response to UKSG's invitation to give an original and personal perspective on being ‘born native’
Claire Duddy
DOI: 10.1629/22131
Volume 22, Issue 2, pp 131-135
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Key issue: Mining information-seeking behaviour data to enhance library services
Jenny Walker
DOI: 10.1629/22182
Volume 22, Issue 2, pp182-184
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Learned societies and Open Access: key results from surveys of bioscience societies and researchers
Sue Thorn, Sally Morris, Ron Fraser
DOI: 10.1629/2239
Volume 22, Issue 1, pp 39-48
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Key Issue: A UK Research Data Service (UKRDS): the way forward for research data management?
John Milner
DOI: 10.1629/2283
Volume 22, Issue 1, pp83-85
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Large Scale Digitisation: the £22 million JISC pramme and the role of libraries
Jean Sykes
DOI: 10.1629/21167
Volume 21, Issue 3, pp167-173
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Key issue: Securing access to print: UKRR
Jean Crawford
DOI: 10.1629/21232
Volume 21, Issue 3, pp232-234
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The information seeking behaviour of the virtual scholar: from use to users
David Nicholas
DOI: 10.1629/2189
Volume 21, Issue 2, pp 89-92
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Key Issue: Traditional and digital preservation: appraisal, accessioning and arrangement
Amy Kirchoff
DOI: 10.1629/21146
Volume 21, Issue 2, pp 146-148
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