From:  Jason Priem <[log in to unmask]>
Date:  Tue, 25 Jun 2019 11:08:00 -0700

Jason from Unpaywall here. Feel free to drop us a line if we can help!
We're currently working closely with several big US libraries to help
them analyze their subscription packages.

All our data is open, of course, so there's no need for us to be
involved--feel free to just download the complete data and go to town.

But we are encouraging folks using Unpaywall for subscription analysis
to get in touch, so that we can collaborate more closely. This helps
us at Unpaywall, because we can better understand how to support this
use-case. And it helps users, because we can quickly answer any
questions about interpretation of the data and so on. We've also been
running custom reports for folks that account for individual
subscription differences (for instance, many titles may have perpetual
access for some data ranges and not others, and libraries want that
factored in).

Later this year, we'll be expanding on these efforts, by releasing an
open-source tool that's designed specifically to bring OA data into
subscription decision-making. This will have lots of ways to
slice-and-dice the aggregated Unpaywall data easily, without requiring
any spreadsheets or custom coding. Basically we want to be able to
scale what we're doing working with individual libraries into
something that will help everyone looking at OA in subscriptions get
the very most out of Unpaywall data.

Anyone interested in any of the above, we'd love to hear from you!
We've got a few great early partners in this already, and we're
looking for more.
Best,
Jason

Jason Priem
UNC Royster Scholar
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 7:41 PM Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> For what it’s worth, my library is about to embark on a major journal cancellation process. It will require us to make very difficult decisions about which journals to retain and which ones to let go, and both the amounts of money involved (even for individual journals) and the anticipated impact on our university’s faculty and students mean that we have a strong incentive to make these decisions very carefully. The process will inevitably involve title-by-title choices, as well decisions at the package level.
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> One of the tools I anticipate we’ll use in making these decisions is UnPaywall, which makes it quick and easy to see what percentage of a journal’s content is freely available online. There will be circumstances in which we’re forced to decide between two equally-desirable journals. Where that’s the case, if the content of one of those journals is more substantially available online than that of the other, it will definitely have an impact on our decision. If it didn’t, we’d be derelict in our duty to use university resources responsibly and to provide the best possible access for our community.
>
> Rick Anderson
> Assoc. Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication
> Marriott Library, University of Utah
> Desk: (801) 587-9989
> Cell: (801) 721-1687
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