I don't know what factors our decision-makers utilized, but my personal favorites were:
Cost per use, and – just for the outrage factor –
Year-to-year percent change in price.
(If you’re doing it “manually,” the latter calculation is: new price divided by old price, minus one, times 100. It may not be as shocking today as it was 15 or 20 years ago. I remember some 300% increases for titles that weren't even
used that much.)
Another possibility is year-to-year percent change in usage, although three years may not be long enough to establish any trends.
For a couple of years we submitted our tentative cancellation list to the entire faculty for input. They were surprisingly reasonable about it – they didn’t demand that everything be retained, as we feared they might.
You may run into trouble collecting three full years of electronic usage reports for titles that have changed publishers, or from small publishers that haven't retained all the data.
Susan Wishnetsky
Galter Health Sciences Library
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois
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Hello!
We are planning to review both our print and electronic journals. Right now we are collecting usage stats for the last 3 complete calendar years (2014, 2015, 2016) and trying to stick to just JR1 reports.
We have individually subscribed journals, packaged journals, etc. Most titles are divided up by librarian liaison area.
What factors have others looked at in determining if a subscription should continue? What's your process? Any insights are welcome.
Thanks,
Ken
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Ken Siegert
E-Resources, Serials & Metadata Specialist Shadek-Fackenthal Library, Room 011
ken.siegert@fandm.edu | 717-358-4219
Franklin & Marshall College
Shadek-Fackenthal Library
P.O. Box 3003
Lancaster, PA 17604-3003
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