Scholarly Journals
Delivery and Retention Format Considerations

FY08 Periodicals Project Details

Our McQuade Library mission stresses our responsibility to provide materials appropriate for undergraduate use.

Under current budget conditions, we can not afford to pay for the same content twice.

Usage statistics show an overwhelming preference for online access to journal literature.

Online access allows the greatest flexibility and convenience for users.

Space for bound periodicals is exhausted in the current building configuration.

Older and more specialized journal literature is widely available via interlibrary loan or by article purchase.

Journals which are judged essential by librarians and faculty can be switched to electronic subscription if not included in a full text database.

THEREFORE: online access to journal literature is to be preferred. A print subscription will only be maintained if:

The title is not included in any of our full text databases.
An online version with equivalent content is not available.
Indexing is available.
OR
It is a browsing title (newspapers, popular magazines).