The Future of Serials in a Linked Data World

Laurie Kaplan is the Director of Content Operations for Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business. Laurie is also currently an MLIS student at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. A version of this paper is being submitted as a term project for her Digital Libraries course for the 2012 fall semester. This paper is based on a presentation prepared by Valerie Bross and Laurie Kaplan, and presented at the 2012 Charleston Conference by Valerie Bross and Yvette Diven (in Laurie’s absence). Valerie’s review of this paper contributed to the final version. Valerie Bross is the Head of the Continuing Resources Cataloging Section, UCLA Library Cataloging and Metadata Center and Yvette Diven is Publisher and Senior Product Manager for Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business