Prevailing & Best Practices in Electronic & Print Serials Management - Read Excerpt 
This report looks closely at the electronic and print serials procurement 
and management practices of eleven libraries including: The University 
of Ohio, Villanova University; the Colorado School of Mines, Carleton 
College, Northwestern University; Baylor University, Princeton 
University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of San 
Francisco, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and the University of 
Nebraska Medical Center. The report looks at both electronic and print 
serials and includes discussions of the following issues:   selection and 
management of serials agents, including the negotiation of payment; 
allocating the serials budget by department; resolving access issues 
with publishers; use of consortiums in journal licensing; invoice 
reconciliation and payment; periodicals binding, claims, check in and 
management; serials department staff size and range of responsibilities; 
serials management software; use of open access archives and 
university depositories; policies on gift subscriptions, free trials and 
academic exchanges of publications; use of electronic serials/catalog 
linking technology; acquisition of usage statistics; cooperative 
arrangements with other local libraries and other issues in serials 
management.
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