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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:35:32 -0500
Subject:
Cancellation or continue...?

From:
Eibias Emrani <emraniebs@yahoo.com>

Dear colleagues:
This is the 3rd year that we have had a large decrease in our serials
budget in University of Tehran - Iran. We can not continued to maintain
all our titles.
We were subscribing to Wiley, Springer-Kluwer, Emerald, Blackwell, World
Scientific, and some society publishers (E-only subscription for some
their journals + full collection access) . We can continue our Elsevier
agreement for 2007, but for others, we must decide to continue or
cancel. What did you do, if you had the same experience?

Publishers force us to maintain all their last titles (subscripiton) to
give us access to their full collections.
Our acquisition committee is interested to know: May publishers agree to
cancel a part of their subscriptions and continue our electronic access?
Were you forced to maintain all your titles? If it is the ultimate way,
we must choose some publishers and cancel others and use interlibrary
loan. Is it correct?

Regards,
Ebrahim Emrani
Head librarian,Faculty of Science.
& central Acquisition Office
University of Tehran - Iran