NMSU Library cancels scholarly journal subscriptions as way to save money for budget

The New Mexico State University Library has decided not to renew 433 scholarly journals subscriptions in the wake of university budget cuts.

About one-third of the subscriptions cut were titles in a package from Elsevier, one of the largest publishers of scholarly journals in the world.

Canceling the Elsevier package alone will save the university $400,000 right now, in Fiscal Year 2020-21, and an additional $400,000 in Fiscal Year 2021-22, according to Katherine Terpis, interim dean of the NMSU Library. According to a statement, Elsevier has had unsustainable price increases that exceeded the cost of inflation in past years.

Source
Las Cruces Sun News (via Infodocket)