About Serials Claiming

You set up claiming parameters for each serial title in Serials Control and let Day End Processing generate claims for missing issues when those parameters are met. Claiming parameters include:

Whether claims are generated in the first place for a title’s issues.
Upon what conditions claims are generated: how many days past the expected date or on a gap basis.
How many days Serials should wait until generating a first claim.
How many days Serials should wait between generating each additional claim.
The maximum number of claims Serials generates for a title’s issues.

Each copy record for a title contains its own set of claiming parameters.

You can also set the parameters to generate no claims or manually change an issue’s status to “Claim” to override parameters.

This diagram illustrates the claiming workflow:

 


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