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Cancellation Project 2003
The inflation rate on library materials has been in the 10-12% range for several years. This has had a devastating impact on the University Libraries' buying power. To cope with the long-term impact of inflationary pricing and to regain balance in our overall materials budget, the University Libraries must impose reductions on its present collections of journals and standing order titles.
This reduction was addressed with two simultaneous efforts: identifying journal and standing order title costs to be reduced and then working with each academic department to reduce their respective print journal subscriptions.
Those journals listed below have been cancelled as of January 2004. Faculty, staff, students, and library patrons are advised to review the lists, as resources used for scholarship in the past may no longer be available in the format previously utilized. The faculty and staff of the University Libraries are prepared to assist in the re-orientation of lesson plans and research needs by identifying local libraries with requested titles, encouraging richer participation in Interlibrary Loan, and other options to minimize the severity of this resource reduction.
Journal Subscriptions
Library Liaisons worked with faculty representatives to evaluate the current journal titles attributed to all of the University's academic departments. Criteria for evaluation of print journals by faculty included availability at local or other Tennessee libraries, availability via document delivery, accreditation standards, status of the journal within the respective discipline, and optimal support of present curriculum.
The general guidelines requested each department to recommend cuts equal to or greater than 10% of the cost of its attributed titles. Additionally, the faculty representatives reviewed proposed cuts to print titles that were duplicated via electronic access; titles cancelled using this criteria are available full-text in electronic databases where the e-format approximated the print journal.
The following are cuts by attributed department toward the 10% goal and any applicable electronic duplication cuts.
The following journals were dropped in print but still have an electronic approximation available in one or more of the University Libraries' databases. Please see the Full Text Electronic Journal Holdings for more information.
Standing Orders
The following link contains those standing order titles recommended for cancellation. Locations are listed by call number and unless otherwise noted, standing orders are shelved in McWherter Library.
Timeline
| 1 March | Response period begins as faculty and librarians
review posted lists of recommended drops and begin work on departmental
drops
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| 15 April | Last day for faculty and librarians to submit
objections to proposed cancellations; last day to submit drops from
academic departments
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| 1 June - 1 Sept | Cancellations submitted to Periodicals and
Acquisitions for communication with publishers |
| 1 July | New fiscal year begins; Standing Order
cancellations take effect |
| 1 January 2004 | Cancellations take effect |
Thanks to all for their patience and cooperation during this process.
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