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Discovery, Collections & Systems

Notes and procedures

Thresholds for Triggering Review of Continuing Resources 

We have established three performance metrics for identifying direct journal subscriptions for review: 

  1. Cost per article download >median 
  2. Increase in journal price >8% over previous year 
  3. # of article downloads <10 

For titles where any of these thresholds are exceeded, liaisons will have a discussion with department faculty to determine if the title should be kept, and if so to develop alternative relative benchmarks. Because of the diversity of database purpose and content types, liaisons will also work with department faculty to develop relative benchmarks for all database subscriptions. 

Annual Report, 2016-17