Publication
Library Resources & Technical Services
Volume
69
Year
2025
Abstract
This study seeks to understand the effects on researchers’ work at a large research university in the wake of the university library’s shift from a near-comprehensive journals package with a single, large publisher to a selective list of individual journal subscriptions. Analyzing historical journal usage, along with turnaway and interlibrary loan trends from the years following the changes, the authors made use of structured interviews with local researchers to bring context and meaning to the quantitative data. The interviews highlighted researchers’ strategies for gaining access to literature in their fields to which the library does not subscribe, and revealed assumptions about timeliness of access, as well as relationships between library subscriptions and local researchers’ publishing behavior.
Recommended Citation
Kizer S. Walker, Adam Chandler, Caitlin Finlay, Gabriela Castro Gessner, Tobi Hines, Jesse Koennecke, Susan Kendrick, Leah McEwen, Jacob Sayward, and Henrik W.W. Spoon, Math and Aftermath: Impacts of Unbundling a Large Journal Package on Researcher Perceptions and Behavior, 69 (2025), available at https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/faculty_articles/1091.
