MUN to cancel 1,700 academic journals, have reduced access to 2,000 | The Muse

"Memorial University has come to a final decision on cancelling academic journals: as of 2016 the library will stop subscribing to 1,700 titles and will have reduced access to more than 2,000 journals. MUN is cancelling its subscription to four major publisher packages, which cost a combined $1.4 million and include five per cent of the library’s total journals. Out of the roughly 4,000 journals in these packages, MUN will pay $600,000 to independently re-subscribe to 220 titles. The library will also subscribe to just over 2,000 of these journals through cheaper third party services, but faculty and students won’t be able to access new articles from these journals until 12 months after they are published. You can read the full list of cancelled and retained journals on MUN’s website ..."