Our subscription agent, Ebsco, provides us with all the reports we need
regarding online availability of titles we order. Probably any agent can
handle a project like yours, letting you know exactly which of your
online subscriptions are unavailable without the print component.

We set aside current print issues of scholarly journals we don't want to
add to the collection, have work-study students organize them by title,
and when volumes are complete, we sell them to a back-file dealer.

Judith E. Stokes, Serials Librarian
Adams Library, Rhode Island College
600 Mt. Pleasant Avenue
Providence, RI 02908
(401)456-8165
JStokes@RIC.edu

-----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

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