Serials management in the age of electronic access

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Acknowledgments: As a disclaimer, I should admit that I am not a professional librarian, although I have benefited from participating in extensive policy and planning discussions concerning the issues discussed here with many of the leaders of the library community. As a library automator and researcher concerned with the effects of technology on libraries and the system of scholarly publication, I know there are surely many important aspects of the issues discussed here that I have not recognized. I would like to thank Nancy Gusack for her editorial assistance and Cecilia Preston for her review of the final draft. This paper is loosely based on a presentation made at the 1990 annual conference of the American Library Association. Introduction