In April, the State University of New York (SUNY) -- a system of 64 institutions -- unbundled its Big Deal with Elsevier. In doing so, it has replaced its subscription package of 2,200 Elsevier journals with a “little deal” of just 248 journals. By unbundling, says SUNY, it has saved about $7 million.

How is a decision to unbundle made, and what are the issues and implications of making the decision? To get a clearer picture I spoke recently by email with Shannon Pritting, Shared Library Services Platform Project Director at SUNY.

The interview can be read here:

https://poynder.blogspot.com/2020/07/unbundling-big-deal-interview-with.html