Deleting Serial Issues with Catalogued Articles

As we have several journals where individual articles are being catalogued I thought it timely, with the end of term upon us, to outline the differences when deleting this type of serial issue record.

Heritage does not provide a way of deleting batches of issues which include catalogued article records - so you can't batch delete in Serial Receipts.  IS Oxford has restricted the deletion of these issue records to the Serials Issue form where you can see the list of the article records that you are about to delete.

Go to:

• Serials menu
• Serial issue
• Enter the issue details to retrieve the correct record
• File - Delete record

When you delete an issue record using the Serial Issue form all the related article records are also deleted. Deleting records in any other way will mean that we have 'orphan' records in the system which are not always easy to find and remove.