Thanks to everyone who responded to my request for ideas about coping
with serials inflation.  Here is a summary of responses.

Amey Park
Kent State University Libraries

                  OPTIONS FOR DEALING WITH SERIALS INFLATION

1.  CANCEL TITLES
    a.  Identify core list of journals for disciplines that
         account for the highest increases, such as physics,
         chemistry, math, biology.  Cancel journals that are not core.
    b.  Eliminate duplicates, especially between libraries within
         the same campus
    c.  Monitor membership/combinations to ensure that all titles
         are wanted
    d.  Take advantage of consortiums that purchase regional or
         statewide subscriptions and cancel local subscriptions
    e.  If your patrons want daily newspapers only part of the
         year, change the subscription to cover only part of the
         year
    f.  Take advantage of use counts to notify faculty which
         journals are actually used

2.  INCREASE FUNDING OR FUNDS AVAILABLE
    a.  Bill back to academic departments
    b.  Gifts made of subscriptions by alumni
    c.  Switch vendors
    d.  Use gov docs and status as depository library to
         receive certain serials
    e.  Donations to library foundation funds
    f.  Move memberships from large groups such as ACS and ACM
         from agent to direct to avoid service charges
    g.  Encourage institutions to streamline their administrative
         staffs and expenditures and put the resulting savings into
         journal subscriptions

3.  PAY-PER-ARTICLE
    a.  Use a service such as CARL UnCover Reveal which provides
         table of contents of serials to notify faculty of
         articles within cancelled journals

4.  CHANGE FORMATS
     a.  Switch a journal from paper to microfiche
     b.  Get the journal in CDROM with fulltext articles

5.  MISSING ISSUES
     a.  Take advantage of listservs such as BACKSERV to purchase
          back issues