University of Iowa drops hundreds of journal subscriptions
peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-06-05
Summary:
"At the University of Iowa Libraries, publisher price increases have become too much to bear.
The libraries announced late last year that they needed to trim $600,000 from their budget, calling on faculty members to help them decide which subscriptions should stay and which should go. The cancellations are just one of a number of difficult budget decisions the university has made following back-to-back state funding cuts.
In a letter to the campus in October, John Culshaw, Jack B. King University Librarian, and Sue Curry, the university's interim executive vice president and provost, wrote that scholarly publishers’ price increases are “simply not sustainable.” ..."