How we cancelled a large chemistry journal package, involved faculty in the decision making process, and one year later look back to find some issues we did not anticipate.

In 2016, faced with an unsustainable 24% price increase over three years, the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries cancelled a large chemistry journal package. The Libraries ending up subscribing to a few individual titles with input from faculty and moved to a “just in time” model for the

remainder of the package content relying heavily upon interlibrary loan services. One year out we look

back upon the cancellation project, how we got here, review usage and interlibrary loan statistics,

calculate cost savings, and find some interesting trends we did not expect concerning faculty requesting

behavior.

Poster presented at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in Boston August 2018.