Further to my post on 3rd July, Information Resources Working Group has met to consider the feedback from the review of subscriptions.  IRWG has made the following recommendations:

That the following subscriptions will be retained:

• SIRCA
• SNL
• ORBIS
• Euromonitor
• Informit – Humanities and Social Sciences Collection
• Informit – AGIS +
• Factiva
• PressReader

That the following subscriptions will go out to Library Committee and LLOs as cancellation proposals with rationale/comments in [brackets]:

• Safari eBooks [substantial price increase in 2019; availability of content via other sources]
• Informit – New Zealand collection [overlap with other sources], Informit – Health collection [feedback that there is little use of this in UC’s Health Sciences programme / crossover with CINAHL] and
• Informit – Families and Society [overlap with other sources]
• Australia/New Zealand Reference Center [overlap with other sources]
• CRSP [identified as low use following consultation with ACIS, ECON, FINC and MGMT]
• New Zealand Time Series database [availability on other sources]
• Journal of cell biology [availability on PubMed]
• Cold Springer Harbor symposia on quantitative biology [3 downloads in 2017, 0 downloads in 2018]
• Fundamental and applied limnology [12 downloads in 2017 (cost/download – $165]
• Wood and fiber science [no usage statistics available]

As part of this review we also considered a new resource NewsBank.  The feedback was that we like Factiva and PressDisplay too much to consider either of those as replacements for NewsBank.  PressDisplay is required by Journalism researchers and students for copies of the page layout and photography.  We will consider NewsBank again in 2019 as the content (particularly the image content) develops.

Communication will go out to LLOs and Library Committee shortly.