First Available Copy Requests on Integrated Serials

When requests are allowed for integrated serials, and a patron clicks Place Request at the title level, a message directs the patron to select individual issues. However, a staff member can place an item-specific request for a monographic title, and the staff member can place a first-available-copy request for an issue or standing order An order placed with a vendor or the publisher directly for all publications in a series, all volumes in a set, or all publications of a single publisher. part.

If the item record meets the following criteria, Polaris treats the request as a first available copy request:

The Item record is linked to a Serial Issue Record.
The Item record is holdable.
The Item record has data in the Issue field.

The MARC Bibliographic level entry may or may not be S. If there are other items with matching Issue data linked to the same bibliographic record, these are also eligible to fill the request.

Tip:
When Polaris considers if Issue data matches, it tries to match internal spaces and all punctuation, but doesn't consider letter case and beginning and trailing spaces.

If the item is linked to a bibliographic record with the Bibliographic level entry S, but there are no linked Serial Issue Records, the request can be filled by that specific item only — the equivalent of an item-level request on a monographic title. The first-available-copy functionality is not available when you do all of the following:

select Allow requests on integrated serials in PAC and Staff Client
do not use the Polaris Serials subsystem
manually enter volume data in the call number of the item.

However, if you want to make first-available-copy functionality available in this situation, you can select All or Allow requests on multi-part sets and non-integrated serials in PAC and Staff Client. See First Available Copy Requests on Multi-Part Sets and Non-Integrated Serials.

Note:
Libraries that don't use the Serials subsystem and don't want to select Allow requests on multi-part sets and non-integrated serials in PAC and Staff Client can allow individual item requests by setting up each specific issue with an item record. Or, they can use the grouped request functionality in the staff client (Grouping a Patron’s Hold Requests).