From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 13:33:58 +0000 >I feel contractually obliged (and I know I¹m boring everybody) to >point out that the evidence that links journal usage patterns to >library purchasing patterns is pretty much non-existent. Setting >embargoes based on usage patterns is faith-based, not evidence-based. David, when refer to "the evidence that links journal usage patterns to library purchasing patterns," you mean ". . . library cancellation patterns," don¹t you? (Internal usage data for journals to which the library doesn¹t subscribe is, indeed, pretty much non-existent, for obvious logical reasons). The evidence linking journal usage patterns to library cancellation patterns is quite well documented. Consider, for example, any of the following articles: ENSSLE, HR; WILDE, ML. So you have to cancel journals? statistics that help. Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services. 26, 3, 259, Sept. 2002. NIXON, JM. A Reprise, Or Round Three: Using a Database Management Program as a Decision-Support System for the Cancellation of Serials. Serials Librarian. 59, 3-4, 302-312, Oct. 2010. GALLAGHER, J; BAUER, K; DOLLAR, D: Evidence-based Librarianship: Utilizing Data from All Available Sources to Make Judicious Print Cancellation Decisions. Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services. 29, 2, 169-179, 2005. GREEN, PR. Monitoring the Usage of Science and Engineering Journals at the Edward Boyle Library, University of Leeds. Serials Librarian, 25, 1-2, 169-180 (1994). Rick Anderson Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections Marriott Library, University of Utah [log in to unmask]