Every year, I tweak EBSCO's Historical Price report with 5 yrs of pricing and send to all liaisons, plus any significant price increase reports, usually as they happen.
Also, for continuing rights, I would consider the costs and make recommendations that involve the way the perpetual access/post-cancellation is provided--as the Project Muse model ("Approximately 90 days after the expiration of an annual subscription term, Project MUSE will provide the Subscriber, upon request, an archival (non-searchable) file on DVD-ROM or other appropriate media as determined by Project MUSE, containing the content of all issues published online during the 12-month subscription term.") (http://muse.jhu.edu/about/order/license_review.html)

or with an annual access fee (sometimes nominal, sometimes dependent on maintaining at least one individual subscription (ACS and others). Sometimes access is lost when a journal is sold to another provider, too. We also sometimes have problems with configuring our link resolver to access these, though the database links continue with all entitlements, if that is set up. Some ways of providing the access are more useful than other ways. So it gets complicated.

Sue

Sue Wiegand

Periodicals Librarian

123 Cushwa-Leighton Library

Saint Mary's College

Notre Dame, IN 46556
574.284.4789

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 8:31 AM, Abbigail C Gregg <acgregg@geneva.edu> wrote:

Package A seems like a lot more bang for your buck and as close as you can actually get to owning something in the digital age. We do take into account perpetual access to a degree, and I think we’d be more likely to stick with package A if we had to cut one of them and all other things being equal.

Abbigail Stauber

Library Technician

724.847.6693 | acgreg@geneva.edu

From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG] On Behalf Of Melissa Belvadi
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2017 12:07 PM
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Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Journal Review suggestions

Hi, all. It suddenly occurred to me that we may have missed another factor in valuing individual e-journals and more importantly, packages, and that's whether you are accruing any perpetual access / post-cancellation access rights.

Most but not all individual journals do accrue PCA, and it's useful to think of each year as a volume "purchased". Some but not all packages also accrue PCA, sometimes to the entire package, sometimes to just your "core" journals within a Big Deal type of contract.

Has anyone thought of a quantitative way to compare the value of this?

For instance, journal package A costs us $30K per year and we're accruing PCA. Journal package B also costs just around $30K but we're not accruing PCA. Assuming the usage is similar and there are no other overriding factors as per what we've talked about in this thread, how much more is package A worth than B?

Melissa

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Ken Siegert <ken.siegert@fandm.edu> wrote:

Hello!

We are planning to review both our print and electronic journals. Right now we are collecting usage stats for the last 3 complete calendar years (2014, 2015, 2016) and trying to stick to just JR1 reports. We have individually subscribed journals, packaged journals, etc. Most titles are divided up by librarian liaison area.

What factors have others looked at in determining if a subscription should continue? What's your process? Any insights are welcome.

Thanks,

Ken

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Ken Siegert
E-Resources, Serials & Metadata Specialist
Shadek-Fackenthal Library, Room 011
ken.siegert@fandm.edu | 717-358-4219

Franklin & Marshall College
Shadek-Fackenthal Library
P.O. Box 3003
Lancaster, PA 17604-3003

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