Faced with the prospect of cutting about 20% of our collections budget and having reviewed the subscriptions from the largest publishers, the campus libraries are beginning a review our Springer, Sage and Oxford journal subscriptions, which account for close to $700,000/year of the library collection budget.
Based on past usage patterns and an analysis of alternate access to some of these titles, we will be trimming our subscription spending with these publishers by substituting article-based access and interlibrary loan for the journals that are less used by our campus community, or duplicated elsewhere.
You’ve already “voted” with your usage, but if you wish to offer additional comments on these titles, you will find a list of low use titles in Health & Biological Sciences here.
Or, you can review the entire list of 2,600 titles if you prefer.