cancellation of print subscriptions Kira Haimovsky 15 Jul 2004 13:20 UTC

Hi everyone,
we are planning to shift our collection of journals from print to
electronic as much as possible,
but just doing some preliminary checking I discovered that in many cases we
are not
allowed to cancel print, only convert to online, even when we have multiple
subscriptions
to the same title for our 3 libraries (this is the first thing I would like
to eliminate).
Could some of you who went thru this process share your experience? For
example, have you cancelled
print subscriptions for Project Muse titles and were there problems with
any participating publishers?
Which other publishers (Sage, Blackwell, Cambridge UP, etc) made the
cancellations difficult or impossible?
I would appreciate your input

Kira Haimovsky
Head, Serials & Electronic Resources Dept.
Fordham University Library
441 E. Fordham Rd.
Bronx, NY 10458
tel: 718-817-3534
fax: 718-817-3530
haimovsky@fordham.edu