Do you mean cancel, or simply not renew?  Our library had no problems when
we crossed titles off the EBSCO renewal list because we were getting them
through one or more aggregators.  If you are thinking of having electronic
subscriptions, perhaps not renewing the hard copy subscription and
starting a new electronic subscription would work.  Your periodicals
jobber should be able to help you with this.

Charlotte Diana Moslander, MS, MA
Assistant Director of Library Services
St. Francis College Library
180 Remsen St.
Brooklyn, NY  11201
tel:  718-489-5305
fax:  718-489-3402

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-----Original Message-----
From: Kira Haimovsky [mailto:HAIMOVSKY@FORDHAM.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 9:20 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] cancellation of print subscriptions[Scanned]

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