Faculty and graduate students tell the library that the journal collection is their major concern.

To address this:
- The University gave additional funding for subscriptions.
- We work with other libraries to make cost-effective purchases.
- We expanded interlibrary loan and document delivery for faster and easier delivery of items we do not own or don’t own in digital form.
- We, and other libraries, are greatly expanding our institutional repositories and other open access projects to provide alternative routes to content. Your choices on where to publish, review, and edit matter. The UU Academic Senate resolution.

These actions don’t offset journal price increases which continue to outpace the university budget. Researchers ask for new titles and expanded online access to older issues but those can only be funded by not renewing existing subscriptions.

Most of our subscriptions are well used, good value for money, or are held by few other libraries. The review list has the titles, however worthy, which seem to have the weakest relative claim to be read, cost-effective, or unique. If the titles support active programs and university priorities, we’d like to learn more about that context from you. Please send your explanations to barbara.cox@utah.edu (Barbara Cox, 7-9167) by June 20, 2008.

The Database and Serials Evaluation Team

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How subscriptions are added and cancelled