Wendt Library Blog, UW College of Engineering: Journal cancellations: Letter from the director
Letter from Director Deborah Helman:
Journal subscriptions, particularly those of commercial publishers, remain high and Wendt Library continues to be unable to keep pace with their annual rising costs. Price increases for 2008 are projected to average 7-9% - somewhere in the range of $42,000 to $50,000. While we received a small increase to our FY08 acquisitions budget, we will still have to reduce our expenditures on journals and serials by a significant amount.
Campus administration has been supportive of libraries, providing regular additions to the acquisitions budget. While these increases have not kept pace with the rising cost of journals, they have still been helpful and essential. We continue to work with administration to obtain funding that will allow us to provide you with collections that will help you to be both productive and competitive in your research and that supports teaching and learning.
Please share your comments or concerns about any of the list of serials proposed for cancellation. Please also continue to share your new journal requests with your liaison librarian or on Wendt’s purchase request form and we will consider adding them now or in the future.
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about these proposed cancellations or other Wendt Library services, please contact me (608-262-7980).
Sincerely,
Deborah Helman
What we're doing to reduce overall costs:
- Shifting to e-only (no print) for more journals
- Cancelling more journals, with a focus on print only titles
- Reducing spending on reference materials and conference proceedings
- Expanding rapid article delivery as an alternative for many high priced and/or underused journals
What faculty and researchers can do:
- Exert your influence with publishers and societies
- Publish in open access journals when possible
- Retain your author rights - the UW-Madison Faculty Senate has endorsed use of the CIC author's addendum to retain key copyright to articles
- Learn more about scholarly communications issues
Wendt Library Blog, UW College of Engineering: Journal cancellations: Letter from the director
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