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: > > 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. > > 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 > [log in to unmask]