Special situation — Parent / Child Periodicals Paid on One PO Line

If Print Subscriptions

Example: MLA News comes with Journal of the Medical Library Association.

Create PO Line for parent publication per normal procedures.

For the child publication:

Create PO Line per per normal procedures, with a List Price of $0.00.

Acquisition Method: Technical

Under Additional => Associated PO Lines, select the PO Line of the parent publication.

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Issues will appear on the receiving workbench for the child title.

Note: If both publications are "children" of a membership, use this procedure.

Technical POL => link to => Regular POL

If Electronic Subscriptions

Example: Nature News comes with Nature.

Create PO Line for parent publication per normal procedures.

For the child publication:

Do a Quick Search for All Titles for title of child publication.

Click on Portfolio List.

Edit portfolio

Portfolio Information tab.

PO Line: [select PO Line of parent publication]

Note: you can only do this if the PO Line of the parent is also electronic, because more than one portfolio can be linked to the same POL.

If mixed print and electronic, you would have to create a new technical POL on the portfolio and use Associated PO Lines to link to the print publication, or vice versa.

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