I will add that sometimes we may get print plus online one year and then
the next year, the publisher changes the subscription somehow and we
don't get the online.  So, if maintaining some kind of access to the
content is vital, you should retain the issues. Otherwise, you may be
spending a lot of money for ILL and document delivery for content you
already paid for.

Barbara Pope
Pittsburg State University
Pittsburg KS  66762
bpope@pittstate.edu

julie su wrote:
> Just please understand that if  you cancel the subscription in the
> future, most likely you will lose online access to the back issues
> that you have paid for. On the other hand, If you have kept your print
> copies, even you lose the online access, you still have the print
> issues.  However, if you have discarded the print issues, you will
> lose both print and online issues when a subscription is cancelled.
>
>
>
> Julie
>
> -- On *Fri, 10/2/09, Rose Marie Parsons
> /<roseparsons@BOISESTATE.EDU>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Rose Marie Parsons <roseparsons@BOISESTATE.EDU>
>     Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Checking in print plus online subscriptions?
>     To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
>     Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 4:07 PM
>
>     Hello,
>
>     Albertsons Library has adopted a policy that print does not need
>     to be retained once we have online access through a paid
>     subscription. When the library orders print + online because that
>     is the only subscription option that provides online access, we
>     may discard print upon receipt. Sometimes the subscription agent
>     can persuade the publisher to refrain from sending the print.
>
>     --
>     Rose Marie Parsons
>     Albertsons Library
>     Boise State University
>     P.O. Box 46
>     Boise, Idaho 83707-0046
>     Telephone: 208-426-4224
>     Fax: 208-334-2126
>
>     On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Williams, Mary Welch
>     <mwill108@utmem.edu
>     <http://us.mc379.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=mwill108@utmem.edu>>
>     wrote:
>
>         Good morning!!
>
>         We're facing further staff reductions and I'm trying to find
>         ways for us
>         to spend our precious time on things that really matter.
>
>         We've been moving subscriptions to online only where economically
>         feasible, but we still receive titles where online only is not an
>         option.  We know that our print titles don't get used, we've
>         got numbers
>         that tell us so.  I've suggested that we not check in the
>         print issue of
>         our print+ subscriptions.  We have 41 such titles.
>
>         My supervisor would like to know if others have done this and
>         if there
>         have been any ramifications, so I am asking you.
>
>         Thanks for your help,
>
>         Mary
>
>
>         Mary Williams (mwill108@uthsc.edu
>         <http://us.mc379.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=mwill108@uthsc.edu>)
>         Serials Librarian
>         University of Tennessee Health Science Center
>         Library and Biocommunications Center
>         877 Madison Avenue, Room 250
>         Memphis, TN 38163
>
>         Phone: (901) 448-5154
>         FAX: (901) 448-5402
>
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