Serials Acquisitions Section: Serials Resources

Associations

• ALCTS (Association for Library Collections & Technical Services)
  A division of the American Library Association.

• The North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) offers resources for members and nonmembers, including links to many serials-related resources on the web. For members only, Conference Proceedings and the Newsletter are available with a password.

• US ISSN Home Page at the Library of Congress. Contains information about the ISSN and an interactive ISSN request form.

• ISSN International Centre in Paris. Contains general information about the ISSN, a registration form, statistics on ISSN assignment, etc. In English and French.

Newsletters & Listservs

• ACQNET is a managed or edited listserv, which aims to provide a medium for acquisitions librarians and others interested in acquisitions work to exchange information, ideas, and to find solutions to common problems. Basic information about the listserv, as well as the listserv archives, are maintained here.

• Against the Grain (ISSN: 1043-2094) is your key to the latest news about libraries, publishers, book jobbers, and subscription agents. It is a unique collection of reports on the issues, literature, and people that impact the world of books and journals. ATG is published on paper five times a year, in February, April, June, September, and November.

• Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues. The scope of the newsletter is library serials pricing interpreted broadly. Appropriate topics include, but certainly are not limited to: journal pricing projections, library cancellation projects, journal publisher and subscription agent efforts to reduce costs, electronic publishing ventures that may impact pricing, announcements of relevant conferences, publisher or vendor actions relating to pricing that are perceived as unfair to subscribers, and good news such as price reductions, etc. Archives are also available.

• SERIALST Scope and Purpose. SERIALST (Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum) was established in October 1990, with technical support from the Office of Academic Computing at the University of Vermont (UVM), in order to serve as an informal electronic forum for most aspects of serials processing in libraries. Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to): cataloging, acquisitions, collection management, serials budgets and pricing concerns, binding, preservation, microfilm and other non print serials media, union list activities, announcements, news, and job postings that are of interest to the serials community. Serialst archives.

Other Resources

• A wide variety of acquisitions information is available from the ACQWEB, ACQNET's web site (produced at the Vanderbilt Law Library), including news in the publishing world, verification tools and resources, publisher and vendor directories, associations and other organizations, journals/newsletters/listserv archives, and general reference tools.

• Serials in Cyberspace, compiled by Birdie MacLennan at UVM, provides a wealth of resources, including ejournal collections, a list of libraries with home pages, and access to Serialst archives.

• QTechWeb from Queen's University in Canada offers a technical services home page which includes acquisitions information and links to many other sites.

• TPOT: Technical Processing Online Tools is available from the University of California at San Diego. Acquisitions, Serials, Cataloging and many more topics are represented.