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Hi to all.
With regard to the budget reviews, I reckon if you can go to the
information providers with resonable requests, they may be able to
suggest ways to keep the service or pear it down somewhat.
Have a good day
Yours sincerely
Jonathan Martin
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Francis [tbf]
Sent: 09 January 2015 14:32
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Subject: Re: [lis-e-resources] subscription review/cancellation exercise
- the 3 scenarios
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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Dean
Sent: 09 January 2015 13:37
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Subject: [lis-e-resources] subscription review/cancellation exercise -
the 3 scenarios
***Cross-posted to multiple lists; please excuse duplication.***
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
Caroline Dean
Acquisitions Manager
University of Cape Town Libraries,
Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa.
Tel: +27 21 6503701
Fax: +27 21 6502044
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