This can be a useful site although it doesn't take consortium-negotiated prices and package prices into account: http://www.journalprices.com/

Brett Thomas
Director, Ekeko Limited
T: +44 7912 785302
(Sent from my phone so excuse any typing errors)

On 9 Jan 2015, at 18:56, Catherine Phillpotts <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:

Just to add my 10 pence worth - we also use the cost per download evidence
and for many journals where we take them individually (ie they are not part
of a package) we have said that if they get less than x accesses per year,
we will cancel. At the moment we are using 75 as our value for x, but we do
consider renewing in special circumstances - ie if the journal is only
relevant to a single course which has only a small number of students (ie
less than 75).
By looking at usage on a title by title basis we have identified many
titles which academics thought were vital, but, which only got 4 or 5 uses
per year - so ILLs are a cheaper option and our academics have understood
this.

Cathy

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On 9 January 2015 at 14:31, Tom Francis [tbf] <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:

Hi Caroline,

We generally do something like this every year now, although the scale and
criteria vary from year-to-year depending on the circumstances.
Most journal subscriptions are allocated to a specific academic
department's library fund; so even though we (the library) pays for
everything from our funds, academics have a sense of responsibility for
"their" journals.

Our subscription review exercises begin with compiling a list of all subs
for each department which will include, where available, the cost for each
of the last three years (so people can see how the price gets ratcheted up
annually), usage stats, and cost per download. Cost per download is main
yardstick we use; if the cost of journal divided by the number of downloads
equals more than the cost of getting an article via inter-library loan,
then we'd strongly recommend it gets cancelled. Not a hard-and-fast rule,
but it's a good conversation starter.

The subject librarians take this list to library reps within the
departments and liaise, asking academics to check their subscriptions and
make sure everything is still relevant. We'll get a few responses along the
lines of "why do we still subscribe to this?" or "crikey! I had no idea
this journal cost that much - we can live without it". Often just doing
that generates enough cancellations, although some years we have had to be
more forceful, e.g. saying "you have to cancel 5% of your subscriptions".
This does require a lot of dialogue with academic staff, and always some
departments are more engaged than others. We haven't yet got to the stage
where I start cancelling things based on my own whim, although I have
threatened it in the past! We have found though that if we're open with
academic staff and explain the situation (i.e. that annual journal
inflation is impossible to keep up with), they are sympathetic and helpful.

Good luck!

Tom

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Dear colleagues

The subscriptions (e-journals, p-journals, databases) budget at the
University of Cape Town Libraries is facing a budget cut. Our finance
department has asked us to draw up scenarios on what the impact to the
university will be if the subscriptions budget is cut by 5, 10 and 15%?

Have you undertaken such an exercise recently? Or even a straight-forward
review/cancellation exercise? What are some of the criteria you used to
evaluate titles for retention or cancellation?

Thank you

Regards
Caroline



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