CERN Library - Reduction of subscriptions to scientific journals
The Library Working Group for Acquisitions has identified some scientific journal subscriptions as candidates for cancellation. Although the 2005 budget is unchanged with respect to 2004 thanks to the efforts of the Management, it does not take account of inflation, which for many years has been much higher for scientific literature than the normal cost-of-living index. For 2006, the inflation rate is estimated to be 7-8%.
Moreover, the Library does not only intend to compensate for the loss of purchasing power but also to make available some funds to promote new Open Access publishing models. (See Bulletin No.15/2005)
The list of candidates can be found on the Library homepage (http://library.cern.ch/).
In addition, some subscriptions will be converted to online-only, i.e. CERN will no longer order the print version of certain journals.
We invite users to carefully check the list (http://library.cern.ch/). Comments on this proposal should be sent to the WGA Chairman, Rudiger Voss, with a copy to the Head Librarian, Corrado Pettenati, no later than 10 August 2005.