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Hello all, I'd also be interested in any answers to this, as our accountants are now assisting that we divide all of our subscription payments by twelfths and charge the correct proportion to the correct financial year - currently 666 individual titles/collections. When a large number of publishers insist on calendar-year subscriptions and we are signed up to various deals through JISC and Eduserv with start dates throughout the year, this is promising to be a challenging task. As far as I know, I cannot operate two financial years in tandem within our Library Management System and am therefore at a loss as to how I reconcile what is on our system against what will eventually be on the University's. I would be interested to hear if any other institution is doing this, and how it works in practice. Many thanks, Sandy Mrs. S. Forster Information Resource Manager Coventry University Lanchester Library Gosford Street Coventry CV1 5DD Tel: 024 7765 7529 Fax: 024 7765 7525 -----Original Message----- From: An informal open list set up by UKSG - Connecting the Information Community [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Taylor, Sarah Sent: 26 November 2015 15:46 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [lis-e-resources] Subscription dates: financial year versus academic year Hi all, I'm sure this has probably been done to death (although currently my information retrieval skills appear to be failing me and I can't see anything much in the archives of this list) but I'm in the process of preparing a paper to explain issues/processes of procuring electronic resources for our accountant, and he has asked for specific information about dates. I know his next question will be why are the start of most of our subscription dates are what they are, i.e. not aligned with the academic year. We did draft a letter to some of our suppliers a while back asking them to consider aligning subscriptions, but I can't recall what happened beyond that! Has anyone managed to align their subscription dates to their financial year, and if so, has it had any sort of impact on management of resources and/or relationships with finance departments? Any insights would be very much appreciated! Many thanks. Best wishes, Sarah Sarah Taylor Electronic Resources Librarian The Peter Marsh Library University of Bolton Deane Road Bolton BL3 5AB 01204 903099 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Please note that my normal working days are Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays lis-e-resources is a UKSG list - http://www.uksg.org UKSG groups also available on Facebook and LinkedIn Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/UKSG lis-e-resources is a UKSG list - http://www.uksg.org UKSG groups also available on Facebook and LinkedIn Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/UKSG