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Collection cuts coming? (2019-2020 budget)
The current draft of the university budget is projecting a cut of about $200,000 to the library’s collection budget, a cut representing 9.5% of last year’s total of $2,104,225, leaving $1,904,625 or 1.2% of the total university budget.
Please find below a list of resources that we anticipate dropping if this budget cut occurs. The titles were derived from resources we are contractually able to cancel, and the decisions were based primarily from an analysis of cost per download as well as a consideration of alternative resources which can somewhat mitigate the loss of certain databases.
None of these cuts affect our francophone resources.
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Library Resources for Cancellation - Preliminary List (March 2019) |
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Resource |
Cost (+/-) |
Notes |
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ABI/Inform |
$ 20,000 |
Significant overlap with Business Source Complete |
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American Institute of Physics Journals |
$ 10,000 |
Less crucial than the ASP journal suite |
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American Physiological Society |
$ 10,000 |
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American Society of Microbiology |
$ 10,000 |
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Canadian Newsstand |
$ 20,000 |
Some overlap with Lexis Nexis Academic |
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Encyclopedia Britannica |
$ 5,000 |
There are partial alternatives |
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Encyclopedia of Life Sciences |
$ 5,000 |
There are partial alternatives |
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Film and Television Literature Index |
$ 2,500 |
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Journal of Biological Chemistry |
$ 5,000 |
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Orlando Women's Writing |
$ 2,500 |
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Oxford English Dictionary |
$ 5,000 |
There are partial alternatives; personal accounts possible |
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Project MUSE* |
$ 30,000 |
We may still need to still license some PM journals |
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PsycTESTS |
$ 5,000 |
Some overlap with Mental Measurements Yearbook |
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Worldcat |
$ 15,000 |
Free version available |
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TO BE DETERMINED |
$ 20,000 |
Please make suggestions |
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Books |
$ 35,000 |
Almost half of 2018-2019 allocation for books |
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Total |
$ 200,000 |
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*600+ full-text journals in humanities & social sciences published by university presses