Making Print Journal Cancellation Decisions
For those of who are looking at the possibility of making some major journal holdings changes you might want to read the following article.
Evidence-based librarianship: Utilizing data from all available sources to make judicious print cancellation decisions
Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 29,
Issue 2, June 2005, Pages 169-179; John Gallagher, Kathleen Bauer and
Daniel M. Dollar.
Abstract
As the cost of periodicals continues to rise, libraries must consider the value of titles currently acquired or subscribed to. At Yale University's Cushing/Whitney Medical Library (CWML), staff employed an evidence-based librarianship (EBL) approach that combined use data from several disparate sources to make the best decisions regarding the cancellation of specific journals' print format. These best-evidence sources include the following: a 3-month usage study of 1249 current unbound print journals; statistics about 3465 MEDLINE-indexed electronic journals accessed via ExLibris' linking tool SFX; statistics from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the American Association of Health Sciences Libraries; and various traditional library statistics.
1 Comments:
Over the last eight years we have used in house journal use study results along with PubMed LinkOut and Ovid statistics to make decisions about which of our print journals we should retain. I am anxious to read about the study done at Yale to see how their methods compare with ours.
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