My institution is a small specialist monotechnic with c. 590 FTE students
ands about 90 current journal subscriptions. I receive farily regular
requests to subscribe to additional journals and, as the budget is not
limitless, feel that I should undertake a review of subscriptions to
ensure that we are spending our money most effectively and, if necessary,
to make the case for additional funding.
I should be interested to hear from anybody who has conducted a review,
particularly with regard to what methods they used to undertake it. Our
ideas so far are to put a tick sheet on the current printed copy and also
send out a list of our current subscriptions to our academic staff and ask
them to say which ones they consider to be vital for us to have and
indicating a reason why.
Have any list members used any other methods and found them to be
particularly successful in ensuring a balanced response.
Thank you in advance for any advice / assistance
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