Press Release: RLUK Develops Journal Subscription Analysis Tool | RLUK

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"As budgets become tighter and journal subscription prices increase, it is imperative that libraries look to new metrics to assess value for money. This is especially true in the case of ‘big deals’ - large aggregations of journals from publishers sold as a single package. Some of these packages now cost RLUK members over £1million per year and account for an ever increasing proportion of library budgets. Such deals have proved attractive as they allow libraries to expand the range of titles they provide to users for a relatively small additional fee. But to date RLUK members have lacked a simple way to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of these packages. At a recent Workshop for members, RLUK unveiled a powerful model that allows members to carefully analyse the value-for-money of publisher packages and to determine whether there would be cost savings to be made from moving back to title-by-title purchasing...."

Link:

http://www.rluk.ac.uk/content/press-release-rluk-develops-journal-subscription-analysis-tool

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Tags:

ru.no oa.new oa.access oa.prices oa.rluk oa.cancellations

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 12:59

Date published:

07/30/2011, 13:11