Resource Management in a Time of Fiscal Scarcity: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment for Journal Package Cancellations: The Serials Librarian: Vol 0, No 0

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Summary:

Abstract:  As a result of continual resource inflation and a decreasing budget, Kansas State University Libraries were required to conduct a large-scale electronic journal cancellation project. The current organizational model does not require librarian subject specialists to perform comprehensive collection development duties; therefore, content development librarians developed a methodology of collecting quantitative and qualitative statistics to collaboratively evaluate journals. This article will demonstrate the methodology of assessment, and serve as a working model for libraries operating under circumstances of labor shortages, budget cuts, and leadership restructuring.

 

Update. Here's an OA edition.

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libraryscience/398/

Link:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0361526X.2019.1576571

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Tags:

oa.new oa.journals oa.cancellations oa.budgets oa.case oa.libraries oa.kansas.state.u oa.librarians oa.paywalled

Date tagged:

03/28/2019, 11:08

Date published:

03/28/2019, 07:08