Hi Caroline,

We did a review last Spring of our subscriptions with a goal of cancelling about $5,000 worth of subscriptions.  We primarily looked at cost per use data.  I created a spreadsheet with the cost of a year's subscription and divided that by the number of uses for each title in that year.  We looked at the past two years (partly because our title-level statistics only went back that far).

Hope that helps!

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Northwestern Michigan College
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On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Caroline Dean <caroline.dean@uct.ac.za> wrote:

 

***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

Email: caroline.dean@uct.ac.za

 

 

 


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