Cost per use is a good screening tool for making renewal decisions. If you have some wiggle room in your budget, you may want to review subscriptions every 4-5 years. We usually have to cancel some to stay within the budget, so we review annually.

 

We calculate cpu, then look at the highest cpu titles as potential non-renewals. Before we decide what not to renew, we look at 2-3 years of usage for our high cpu titles. We don’t want to non-renew based on one year’s use because use may drop when courses are taught alternating years, faculty are on sabbatical, or positions are vacant. If a title has high cpu for 2-3 years, we’ll probably non-renew  it. We sometimes renew a high cpu title because it supports a small program and we don’t have much else for that program.

 

Ginger

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Virginia Kay Williams

Acquisitions Librarian and Associate Professor

Wichita State University

1845 Fairmount / Box 68

Wichita, KS 67260-0068

316-978-6442

ginger.williams@wichita.edu

 

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