UK Serials Group

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The UK Serials Group (UKSG) (a UK registered charity), the international body for professionals involved in providing and managing electronic and hard copy academic and research literature offers members (publishers, intermediaries and librarians) many important benefits:

• Email alerts containing the latest news from the scholarly information world
• Training opportunities for new library and information staff
• A free e-book explaining some of the current key issues in learned and scientific publishing- the UKSG E-Resource Handbook
• Seminars to bring library and information staff up to date with the latest technological and industry trends affecting service to end-users
• Conferences for networking, meeting suppliers and swapping experiences and ideas with fellow professionals
• The lis-e-journals email list, which has over 1700 subscribers from across the industry and enables members to monitor key e-journal issues (lis-e-journals@jiscmail.ac.uk)
• Access to the peer-reviewed journal Serials (http://www.uksg.org/serials.asp) - containing the latest research in the field of scholarly communications, insights into the work of those employed in all parts of the scholarly communications chain (including librarians, publishers and intermediaries), and more.