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The print-to-electronic format transition:
existing collections of scholarly journals
In addition to moving away from current issue subscriptions of print journals
in favor of e-only access, some libraries have also begun to explore collaborative
ways to maintain journal collections. These collaborations enable individual
libraries to remove large shares of their local collections in favor of shared collec-
tions that are either held centrally or distributed across a set of partner institu-
tions. There are a few examples of regional efforts like the Western Regional
Storage Trust (WEST)."1 Ithaka S+R's What to Withdraw9 report sought to
establish community preservation targets for journal materials in order to help
ensure that libraries meet their shared preservation goals. But while there is
substantial momentum in the library community around the large-scale local
deaccessioning of print journals, this process has at times raised some concerns
among scholars and students.20
Still, attitudes maybe changing. The share of respondents who agreed strongly
with the statement "assuming that electronic collections of journals are proven to
work well, I would be happy to see hard copy collections discarded and replaced
entirely by electronic collections" continued to increase in this cycle of the
survey (see Figure 10). In the aggregate, about 40% of faculty members agreed
strongly with this statement, while about half of respondents in the sciences and
social sciences agreed strongly.
In a question about long-term perspective, the share of respondents that strongly
agreed that it will always be crucial for either "my college or university library"
or "some college or university libraries" to maintain hard-copy collections of
journals, "regardless of how reliable and safe electronic collections ofj ournals
maybe," has continued to decline. A majority continued to strongly agree that
this will be crucial for some libraries (see Figure 11), and it appears that the share
of respondents that strongly agrees with this notion maybe reaching a plateau on
a disciplinary level. But the share that believes it will always be crucial for their
library to maintain these collections has declined slightly, to less than a third,
and in the sciences, to less than a quarter (see Figure 12).
18 Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST), http://www.cdlib.org/west/.
19 Roger C. Schonfeld and Ross Housewright, "What to Withdraw: Print Collections Management in the Wake
of Digitization," A Report by Ithaka S+R (September, 2009), http://www.sr.ithaka.org/research-publications/
what-withdraw-print-collections-management-wake-digitization.
20 Jennifer Epstein, "A Win for the Stacks," Inside Higher Ed, November 13, 2009, http://www.insidehighered.
com/news/2009/11/13/syracuse; "How Many Copies is Enough? Too Many?: Libraries and Shared Monograph
Archives," A Session at the MLA Annual Convention (January, 2013), http://mlalibraries.wordpress.com/
mla-2013/.Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2012 * April 8, 2013
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