Communiqué - Nouvelle ère pour les collections - Bibliothèques - Université de Montréal

From Google's English: "In recent weeks, the UdeM [U of Montreal] libraries have announced in the journal forum they begin a major shift in the management of collections. Now they will emphasize individual subscriptions to periodicals in an editor rather than buying a whole lot of his titles, currently the most widespread process. The first group affected by this shift is that of Wiley Online Library . The UdeM libraries will withdraw from the consortium subscription, and, in 2014, to promote the selection of individual journal titles from this publisher. An objective analysis complemented by a selection piece identified periodic preferred. Libraries provide to subscribe to periodicals that have collected 68.3% of total use in 2012, 382 periodicals on 1506 that contains the complete set. Note that the list price of the annual subscription to the 382 securities exceeds $ 1,000,000. Libraries can no longer cope with the annual cost increases required by periodical publishers, today and despite buying groups vary between 3% and 6% per year. This inflationary spiral is unsustainable in the long term. This new strategy will retrieve savings that can possibly be reinvested in the purchase of monographs and maintaining individual journal subscriptions have been multiple rounds of cancellations in the past. Users can use the ILL service for journal articles canceled this collection."