Virginia Tech's University Library plans to cancel nearly $900,000 worth of subscriptions in the 2009-2010 budget year.
In a letter to the university community, Eileen Hitchingham, dean of university libraries, wrote that potential budget cuts and anticipated inflation costs facilitate a need for mass cancellations.
Hitchingham said that the university must cancel $500,000 worth of subscriptions to accommodate library budget cuts. They must also cover $400,000 worth of cuts to meet inflationary cost increases....
[Paul Metz, director of collection management for University Libraries] said that the university has been aggressive in recent years in obtaining "all title" deals from venders such as Elsevier, John Wiley, Springer-Verlag, Blackwell and Taylor & Francis/Routledge. While the resources have been heavily used, Metz wrote, annual price increases exceeding inflation have demanded subscription cancellations be made.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/20/2009 01:41:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
