Close a Publication Pattern

To close a publication pattern:

Important:
Be sure to predict all issues still under the old pattern before closing it and establishing a new publication pattern. Closing the pattern stops prediction even if the End date has not been reached. If you try to close a pattern, and issues have already been received, Polaris deletes only the expected, never published or not available issues with a start date after the End date entered in the Close publication pattern dialog box.

1. Right-click an open publication pattern on the Serial Holdings Record workform.

The context menu appears.

2. Select Close pattern from the context menu.

The Close Publication Pattern dialog box appears.

3. Enter the end date in the End date box, and click OK.

The publication pattern is closed.

Related Information

Serial title changes - If the publication’s title changed, copy the serial holdings record, link the new serial holdings record to the new bibliographic record, and close the publication pattern for the old serial holdings record. You can link to a different bibliographic record from a serial holdings record if no issues were received under that title. See Link a new bibliographic record to a serial holdings record.