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Serials Watch List for FY2005 |
Journals listed here may be slated for a format change, cancellation, or replacement. Essential journals for which the cost has increased significantly are also listed, so that other journals may be identified for possible cancellation in order to continue subscribing to the needed journal . Reasons may include publisher price increase, publisher format change, duplication of subscriptions, low use statistics, feedback that a journal is dated or no longer needed, requests to replace one title with another (for instance, when a professional society switches publishers), etc.--April 2004
Please review the watch list and send comments and concerns to Kathleen Brown.
American Chemical Society journals: Based on several faculty requests and very high usage of the ACS Online Archives (added 2004) and three new e-only ACS titles (Langmuir, Analytical Chemistry, and Chemistry of Materials), the Library plans to switch format for all ACS titles, from print to e-only. No cost difference. 6/04. UPDATE 8/04: Format change to online-only will proceed with the exception of the print subscription to Analytical Chemistry at the Darling Center.
American Geophysical Union journals: Two titles are already received e-only. The Library proposes switching format from print to online for the remaining AGU subscriptions. 6/04.
American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings: The library has the option to continue print+online for or switch to online-only, with access to online proceedings from 2000+. There would be slight cost savings with the online-only option, plus access to two additional AIP journal titles, Geochemical Transactions and Low Temperature Physics. 9/04.
American Physics Society journals: The Library has the option to continue the online+print subscription for the "APS-All" journal titles, including Physical Reviews, or switch to online-only format for a slightly lower cost. See list of APS-All. 7/04.
BioMed Central membership: The University of Maine became a member of BioMed Central in 2004, at a discounted rate of $2,790, through a one-time grant from BRIN. The primary advantage of membership is that faculty may submit and publish refereed articles to BioMed Central’s open-access journals without fees. BioMed Central publishes dozens of freely available open-access research journals and membership also supports this new publishing model. If BRIN or other funding does not support membership, it will be canceled. 6/04. UPDATE 8/04: BRIN will not fund for 2005. No alternate funding has yet been identified.
BioOne: Some faculty have requested BioOne. This would mean canceling print subscriptions for 42 journals and subscribing to the BioOne online package of 69 journals. The library would save about $2,600 and gain additional titles. Access would be online-only. 4/04. UPDATE 5/04: The majority of biology faculty favor the switch to online-only for 2005.
BRIN-funded journals: The University of Maine subscribed to several new genomics and biology titles in 2004 for a total of $21,568 through a one-time grant from BRIN. If BRIN or other funding is not available to support continued subscriptions, these will be canceled. 6/04. UPDATE 8/04: BRIN will not fund for 2005. No alternate funding has yet been identified.
Briefings in Bioinformatics
Briefings in Functional Genomics
Comparative and Functional Genomics
Current Genomics
Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
Functional & Integrative Genomics
Genes and Development
Genome Biology
Genome Research
Genomics
Mammalian Genome
Marine Biotechnology
Molecular Cell
Molecular Human Reproduction
Oncogene
Stem Cells
Choice: Duplicate subscription, online and print. Librarians have approved cancellation of print. 4/04
EMBO Journal: Essential journal with large cost increase.4/04. UPDATE 5/04: Library now subscribes to online-only version, which comes bundled with EMBO Reports.
Journal of Algorithms (Elsevier): Board of Directors resigned due to high cost of the publication ($769/year), and is forming a new journal to be published by ACM, Transactions on Algorithms ($175/year). Possible replacement. 4/04.
Labor and Employment Law Library: High database cost (over $7,000) and fairly low use based on local data. Wait for end-of-year review of usage statistics.4/04. UPDATE 8/04: No feedback from anyone that they are using this. Publisher does not provide information about usage. Notified publisher we would not renew, access continues through January 2005.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science: The Library proposes subscribing in the print+online option. The online-only option is preferred by faculty and the cost is slightly lower, but unlike many online licenses it does not provide ongoing "ownership" of the 300+ titles published in the series each year. 7/04.
Marriage and Family Review (Haworth): More than doubles in price for 2005, from $510 to $1070. A second-tier journal per faculty consulted; usage statistics low; may be canceled for 2005. 5/04.
Optical Society of America journals: The Library has the option of moving to online-only for its 5 current print subscriptions (Applied Optics, Optics Letters, Jls of OSA A & B, Optics & Spectroscopy), for a slight cost savings. 8/04.
PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences): Essential journal with a large cost increase for online access to pre-publication articles and the latest six months. (After six months all online access is free). Library currently subscribes in print but faculty need the up-to-the-minute online access.4/04. UPDATE 6/04: Library will subscribe to online-only at renewal, beginning January 1, 2005.
Project MUSE: Fogler Library will maintain its subscription to Project MUSE journals, and proposes dropping the duplicate print subscriptions to several journals that were added to the Project MUSE subscription in 2004. These titles would continue in online format, paid for in Project MUSE, starting in 2005. 9/04.
Canadian Historical Review
Canadian Journal of Linguistics-Revue Canadienne de Linguistique
Canadian Modern Language Review-La Revue Canadienne des Langues Vivantes
Canadian Review of American Studies
Contemporary Literature
Early Music
Éire-Ireland
Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies
Journal of Narrative Theory
Journal of Scholarly Publishing
Latin American Politics & Society
PsycArticles: The Library proposes switching from print to online subscriptions for journals from the American Psychological Association. Cost for the online PsycArticles database would be about the same as our print subscriptions. The library would gain about 25 new journal titles and have archived article access for all APA journals back to 1987.4/04. UPDATE 5/04: Psychology faculty approved the switch to online for 2005.
Rockefeller University Press journals: Publisher will not provide online access with print subscriptions in 2005. Library proposes to subscribe to online-only for Journal of Cell Biology, Journal of Experimental Medicine, Journal of General Physiology. This will provide access to "early release" articles not available immediately in print. This would also supplement the publisher-maintained free online archive of issues from Volume 1 to 6 months ago. Slight cost savings. 7/04.
SAGE/Corwin journals: Publisher will not provide online access with print subscriptions starting in 2005. Fogler Library subscribes to 88 journals and will need to decide whether to switch some or all of the subscriptions to online-only, or pay extra fees to have both formats. 5/04.
deborah.rollins@umit.maine.edu
| Revised: 01/28/2008
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