petersuberAug 16, 2024

"#MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing its largest journal contract [with #Elsevier] as overwhelmingly positive."
https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-knowledge-base/unbundling-profiles/mit-libraries/

#Academia #BigDeals #Cancellations #ILL #Libraries #ScholComm #Publishers #Subscriptions #Unsub
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Unbundling Profile: MIT Libraries - SPARC

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Janne OksanenDec 1, 2022
Blaaah... so my #Youtube subscriptions feed is now completely littered with #vertical videos. Time to #unsub every channel that posts those.
Ross MounceNov 8, 2022

"Lessons Learned from Reevaluating Big Deals with Unsub" -- open access at Serials Review, by @sckottie
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00987913.2022.2132090

boosts welcome

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Lessons Learned from Reevaluating Big Deals with Unsub

The value of big deals is increasingly unclear. This article briefly discusses factors others have considered in evaluating big deals and covers the four factors that should be considered moving fo...

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