From: "Pryor, Benjamin S." Subject: Reductions in Electronic Resources

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1 From: "Pryor, Benjamin S." Subject: Reductions in Electronic Resources Thread-Topic: Reductions in Electronic Resources Date: Tue, 6 Sep :07: To: UT Faculty From: Ben Pryor, Vice Provost and Dean, College of Innovative Learning Re: Electronic Resource Cancellations The cost of electronic resources increases at a rate of around %7 per year, with some disciplines experiencing increases closer to %14. At the same time, faculty and students depend on the availability of electronic resources that cannot be found for free on the web and that are crucial for successful scholarship and research. University libraries play a fundamental and yet often under-recognized role in the organization and presentation of materials to student and faculty patrons, and until all scholarly communication is made available to the public at no cost, the libraries will bear a costly responsibility for obtaining and providing access to electronic resources. Since 2006, our libraries have been able to restrain spending relative to peer institutions in the state. Our materials budget has been consistently the lowest and our overall budget is almost exactly at the median for all institutions in Ohio and comparable to other institutions our size. However, because our investment in library materials has been so low, we are especially sensitive to additional budget cuts. This year, the overall cut to the College of Innovative Learning including University Libraries was quite large, as were cuts to all other college budgets. Some savings were achieved through the elimination of staff positions, but all areas of our budget were hit, including our electronic resources budget. As a result, and after extensive consultation with library faculty and area specialists, the library had to cancel many electronic resources. At the bottom of this memo you will find a list of electronic databases and journals that are or will not be available via the University Libraries after their access ends date. Please make a note of the resources in your disciplines so you will be prepared to move to other resources once access has ended. These decisions were very difficult and were the subject of vigorous yet collegial debates throughout the summer as we evaluated our options, consulted data (including usage, cost per view/download, importance to a subject, availability through alternative means, etc.), and tried to strike a balance between value to a department or discipline and cost to the institution. It is important to realize that some of the cancelled journals and databases are valuable resources and have been used, sometimes extensively, by UT faculty. Again, the faculty and administration of the library had to make difficult choices. Despite these cuts, our dedication to service remains strong. Librarians can help to find substitutions for lost resources among those we still maintain, or they can facilitate the use of OhioLINK or Interlibrary Loan. Excellent resources are available through the databases we are sustaining, and librarians are prepared to provide support in the use of these resources. We are committed to sustaining our value and to actively engaging information specialists in the intellectual lives of the various colleges, so this is a very good time for faculty to get involved in the collection development process by contacting your department or college liaison (see: < aisons.html). Please contact me if you have questions or concerns about the overall cuts and their significance to our mission. If you have concerns about individual cuts or would like to become involved in the collection development process, please contact your department or college liaison.

2 Eliminated Electronic Databases and Journals List: American Physical Society -access ends 12/31/11 Institute of Physics Online package-access ends 12/31/11 Optical Society of America-access ends 6/30/11 Oxford Scholarship Online-access ends 6/30/11 Royal Society of Chemistry E-journals-access ends 12/31/11 American Society of Mechanical Engineers -access ends 6/10/12 Annual Reviews -access ends 12/31/ th Century Masterfile -access ends 1/31/12 Access Emergency Medicine-access ends 6/10/11 ACP Medicine-access ends 6/30/11 Archives Finder -access ends 10/31/11 ASTM Standards and Digital Library-access ends 2/26/12 Biomed Central Journal Subscriptions-access ends 7/13/11 Cataloger's Desktop -access ends 6/30/11 Classical Music Online-access ends 6/30/11 Classification Web-access ends 6/30/11 Comdisdome-access ends 4/30/12 Congressional Universe-LexisNexis -access ends 6/30/11 Doody's Core Titles -access ends 6/30/11 FAITS- ITI Library & Consortia Resource Collection-access ends 12/31/11 Gerritsen Collection-access ends 12/31/11 Global Issues in Context-access ends8/20/11

3 Eliminated Electronic Databases and Journals List (continued): GREENR-access ends 8/20/11 Henry Stewart Talks-access ends 6/30/11 Historical N.Y. Times -access ends 3/31/12 Historical Wall St. Journal -access ends 3/31/12 IBIS World-access ends 1/31/2012 IHS Standards Expert-access ends 2/26/12 Inspec Archive-access ends 6/30/11 JAMAEvidence-access ends 6/30/11 Mental Measurements Yearbook -access ends 6/30/11 Mergent Digital manuals/web reports-access ends 9/30/12 Metabolic and molecular bases of inherited disease (Ommbid)-access ends 6/30/11 Music Index-access ends 12/31/11 OCLC Research Plus [EUREKA]-access ends 6/30/11 Ulrichs' online w serials: IS analysis -access ends 6/30/11 Vanderbilt Television News Archives-access ends 6/30/11 Viewswire-access ends 5/20/11

4 American Physical Society journals to be eliminated: availability through [Ohiolink] Physical Rev. A, Atomic, Mol., Opt. Physics [ not available] Phys. Rev. B, Condensed Matter Physics [ not available] Physical Review C, Nuclear Physics [ not available] Physical Review D, Particle phys, grav.,cosm [ not available] Physical Review E, Soft cond., many- body, bio [ not available] Physical Review Letters, [ not available] Physical Review I,II,III Historical Physical Review [not available] Reviews of Modern Physics, present [not available] PROLA Physical Review Online Archive - not available Citations not available PRA, >=1985 [actual, ] PRB, >=1997 [actual ] PRC, >=1985 [actual, ] PRD, >=1985 [actual, ] PRE, >=1993 [actual, ] PRL, >=1985 [actual, ] Physical Review I,II,III - not available [ ] Reviews of Modern Physics, not available [1929- present] PROLA - not available

5 Institute of Physics Journals (IOP) to be eliminated Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Biofabrication Bioinspiration & Biomimetics Biomedical Materials Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics Chinese Physics B Chinese Physics C Chinese Physics Letters Classical and Quantum Gravity Communications in Theoretical Physics Computational Science & Discovery EPL (Europhysics Letters) - GOOD (1986 present) Environmental Research Letters European Journal of Physics - MISSING ( ) Fluid Dynamics Research IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering Inverse Problems Izvestiya: Mathematics Journal of Breath Research Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Journal of Geophysics and Engineering Journal of Instrumentation Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering Journal of Neural Engineering Journal of Optics Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter - GOOD Journal of Physics: Conference Series Journal of Radiological Protection Journal of Semiconductors Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment Measurement Science and Technology Metrologia Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering - GOOD Nanotechnology - GOOD New Journal of Physics Nonlinearity Nuclear Fusion Physica Scripta Physical Biology Physics Education Physics in Medicine and Biology Physics-Uspekhi Physiological Measurement

6 Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion Plasma Science and Technology Plasma Sources Science and Technology Quantum Electronics Reports on Progress in Physics Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics Russian Chemical Reviews Russian Mathematical Surveys Sbornik: Mathematics Science Foundation in China Science and Technology of Advanced Materials Semiconductor Science and Technology Smart Materials and Structures Superconductor Science and Technology The Astronomical Journal The Astrophysical Journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

7 Optical Society of America Journals (OSA) already eliminated OSA JOURNALS Available on OhioLinK: Advances in Optics & Photonics Applied Optics Biomedical Optics Express Journal of Optical Networking ( ) Journal of the Optical Society of America ( ) - NOT AVAILABLE [NWO Dep ] Journal of the Optical Society of America A - [ not available] Journal of the Optical Society of America B - [ not available] Optics Express Optics Letters 2002 present only Optical Materials Express Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics CO- PUBLISHED AND PARTNERED TITLES Applied Spectroscopy Chinese Optics Letters Journal of Display Technology Journal of Lightwave Technology Journal of Optical Technology Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (formerly JON) Journal of the Optical Society of Korea