An article in the Louisville Courier-Journal tells of the rising costs of journals at a time of tight budgets at the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky. The situation is one that many librarians will recognize, The campus libraries are buying fewer books, and journals that are important to research are being dropped. At Kentucky, at least, the numbers are daunting: The university discontinued subscriptions to about 1,000 journals this year.
Such a lengthy list of canceled subscriptions is not included in the news article, but many observers (including those here at The Chronicle) have noted that smaller journals are often first to get the ax. And those smaller journals frequently need subscribers more than the bigger ones do. The Courier-Journal story does note that professors have a hard time getting their hands on information after journals are dropped.
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