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The Freedom Collection 2017–2021: Part 2, Uncl Members’ Subject Usage Preferences And Profiles, David C. Tyler

UNL Libraries: White Papers

With data supplied by a colleague, the author looked into the by-subject downloading activities of the members of the University of Nebraska Consortium of Libraries (UNCL): University of Nebraska at Kearney, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Nebraska Medical Center, and University of Nebraska Omaha.

The Freedom Collection 2017–2021: Part 1, The Composition Of The Freedom Collection And Uncl’S Downloads By Member And Subject, David C. Tyler

UNL Libraries: White Papers

With data provided by a colleague, the author looked at the University of Nebraska Consortium of Libraries (UNCL) downloading activity of Elsevier's Freedom Collection for the 2017-2021 interval. Members include the University of Nebraska at Kearney, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Nebraska Medical Center, and University of Nebraska Omaha.

The author looked at activity by member and by subject at the level of journals' Library of Congress Classifications.

This report was submitted in the fall of 2022 to the UNL Libraries Collections Strategies Committee (CSC) and to the members of the Collections Strategies and Open Scholarship (CSOS) department.

Wiley Journal Package: Unl Download Activity By Subject, David C. Tyler, Casey Hoeve, David Macaulay, Robin Mcclanahan

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Because the field of librarianship has been reconsidering its relationship to commercial academic publishers and their 'Big Deal' journal packages, the authors decided to review the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's usage of Wiley's package. In this report, the authors looked into whether UNL's downloads by subject were such that subscribing to a number of hypothetical smaller, subject-specific packages, rather than to the entire Wiley package, might be a viable strategy.

Unl’S Wiley Journal Downloads: 2014-2020, David C. Tyler, Casey Hoeve, David Macaulay

UNL Libraries: White Papers

Because the field of librarianship has been examining its relationship to commercial academic publishers and their 'Big Deal' journal packages, the authors elected to examine one such package, Wiley's. The authors' hoped to determine whether the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's usage was concentrated enough and consistent enough over a multi-year interval for download data to be useful in identifying journals for hypothetical individual subscriptions or for inclusion in a hypothetical smaller, UNL-specific package.

Unsub: Sundry Thoughts, Employing Data From The Wiley E-Journal Package, David C. Tyler, David Macaulay, Robin Mcclanahan

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The authors reviewed the UnSub tool using journal download data from Wiley for 2020. Some of the lead author's concerns with cancelling the Wiley journal package and proceeding with UnSub's Open Access-dependent approach are detailed.