Hi, Steve. 

I also want to develop a list of core journals.  What process did you use to develop your core journals list?  Do teaching faculty or liaisons have input?  Do usage stats play a role?

Sincerely,

From: "Steve Oberg" <steve.oberg@WHEATON.EDU>
To: "SERIALST@listserv.nasig.org" <SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG>
Sent: Friday, July 7, 2017 9:48:23 AM
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Journal Review suggestions

In terms of journal review, another thing that should come into play, or may, is what you define as your “core” journals. These by definition are those that closely support and align with your curriculum, but there are other aspects to their definition as well. And by definition, these are ones you want to sustain in the long term whereas other subscriptions are of lesser priority. At my library, we have undergone an in-depth, multi-year process of defining core journals in each of our disciplines and are now actively working on ensuring that we have current subscriptions to all of them, with as complete a backfile as possible. And because they are core, things like cost-per-use may not weigh as heavily as otherwise might be the case. This will also help if in future, we need to make cuts to our current subscriptions. We’ll try to preserve the core and those journals not defined as core are then possible targets for elimination if the need arises.

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