CDL: Cancellation decisions?
From: "Marianne Hebert" <hebertm_at_potsdam.edu>
I concur with the usefulness of overlap analysis tools. We use Serials
Solutions routinely when looking at database renewals. You'd be
surprised at how much duplication there is. We recently realized that
our BioOne subscription was only 34% unique, but when we looked to see
how the unique titles were getting used, they had very good use, and
individual subscriptions would have cost the same or more. We couldn't
find any alternate biol databases within our budget. All the EBSCO
science products we considered were 100% duplicated by Academic Source
Complete, so we opted to stay with BioOne for another year.
For e-journals, we check every year to see if they are available FT in
an aggregate database. Often we decide we can live with embargoes for
expensive titles and plan to use Inter-library loan as backup. We also
look at click through stats: how are patrons using your link resolver,
to which resources are they linking and how often?
One option to consider is lowering the number of simultaneous users you
have for some databases. You can save quite a bit by having a single or
2-4 users. Limited users are better than zero. We are considering to
do that with Philosopher's Index. It gets some use, but not a lot. If
you have a discovery service like Summons or EDS, limited users won't
work though.
Good luck!
Marianne
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Received on Mon Jun 23 2014 - 08:40:05 EDT