Increases in journal prices combined with small budget
increases have resulted in collection decisions needing to be made regarding
bundled packages.
Bundled packages are sometimes referred to as “big deals”.
Under this publisher model, the library commits to maintaining their current
subscriptions with a publisher. For an
additional fee the publisher will allow the library access to hundreds and
sometimes thousands of journals they previously did not have access to.
However, during times of flat budgets and journal price
increases, the library needs to evaluate these bundles to see if they are still
cost effective.
Annual Reviews is our smallest bundled package with 25
titles and was selected first to evaluate. Over the past 5 years, 5 Annual
Reviews titles have showed consistent high usage in comparison to the other
titles in the bundle. With this information we decided to unbundle the package
and only subscribe to the top five used journals below.
- Annual Review of Immunology -1996-present
- Annual Review of Medicine -1996-present
- Annual Review of Neuroscience -1996-present
- Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology - 1996-present
- Annual Review of Physiology - 1996-present
This move allowed us to save enough money so no further
journal cancellations were necessary in 2015-16.
Further good news is the Annual Reviews licensing agreement will allow us to retain access to previously subscribed content. This means we will retain access to the below journals for the dates indicated. Any articles needed from these journals before or after the indicated dates may be requested through Interlibrary Loan.
Annual Review of Biochemistry -1996-2015
Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering -1999-2015
Annual Review of Biophysics -
Annual Review of Clinical Psychology -2005-2015
Annual Review of Entomology -1996-2015
Annual Review of Food Science and Technology -2010-2015
Annual Review of Genetics -1996-2015
Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics -2000-2015
Annual Review of Marine Science -2009-2015
Annual Review of Microbiology -1996-2015
Annual Review of Nutrition -1996-2015
Annual Review of Phytopathology -1996-2015
Annual Review of Plant Biology -1996-2015
Annual Review of Psychology -1996-2015
Annual Review of Public Health -1996-2015