Making Sense of Standards and Technologies for Serials Management: A Guide to Practice and Future Developments for Librarians, Publishers and Systems Developers

This is an accessible collection of studies which cover the key enabling standards and technologies for serials management and access, exploring how they are being used in practice and recommending implementation and development paths. It focuses on placing the standards in context. The papers include: descriptive standards for serials metadata; standards for terms of availability data; standards for serials holdings; standards for document requesting/ordering; unique identifiers.