Journals Review Project
The Marvin K. Peterson Library seeks to provide a journal collection that will support not only the general undergraduate curriculum, but the graduate programs, research needs of faculty, and the anticipated PhD program in Criminal Justice. The Library will continue to provide a journal collection that satisfies accreditation agencies and licensing organizations.
The vast majority of the Library's journal collection is available in electronic format only. As of December 31, 2010 there are 23,688 unique journals available full-text to UNH faculty, students and staff through the Journals link on the Library's web site. Only about 300 print journals remain (about 200 paid subscriptions and 100 gifts).
The Library is conducting a further review of its journals collection, including the few print and microform journal holdings remaining and all of the electronic journal subscriptions, for relevancy to the programs and courses currently offered at the University. Faculty input is needed to identify those titles that the library should continue to acquire in their disciplines even though usage of those journals is minimal. A justification for continuing with a subscription will be most helpful for those titles with little or no demonstrated usage by our students and faculty. As new programs and courses of study become available, new journal titles need to be acquired.
The Library can provide you with a variety of tools, such as lists of journals held and usage statistics, as well as other data to aid you in your decision-making.
Paid Journal Subscriptions along with usage data for 2009 and 2010 (online or print titles)
Publisher Journal Packages currently held on subscription:
ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) institutional print journal package
IEEE Computer Society Digital Library
Emerald Management Xtra95 and Engineering online journals package
Sage Premier 2008
Print Journals received for free as donations.
USAGE STATISTICS are provided in the attachments below.
Electronic Journals Usage Report for 2009 (Subscriptions held)
Electronic Journals Full-text Downloads Report - 2010
Electronic Journals Usage Report for 2008
Electronic Journal Usage at UNH via the 'Journals' link on the library home page for calendar year 2008. (There are other sources through which these journals are accessed, but this gives a good idea of their use. Other usage might be directly through the publisher's web site, directly through a database, through Google Scholar or another search engine.)
This Excel file of Electronic Journals Usage includes 5 worksheets as follows:
Journal Usage (A-Z listing of electronic journals available in full text, along with usage data)
Journal Usage with DB (A-Z listing of these electronic journals along with usage data
and Data Base source)
Searches Report (report on the type and number of searches conducted)
Subject Search Report (report of the journals searched by broad subject category)
DB Provider Report (reports on the electronic journals usage arranged by Data Base provided)
Journals by School and Print Usage:
Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences
Tagilatela College of Engineering
General Journals supporting multi-disciplinary programs
All Journal subscriptions in an A-Z List
Journal subscriptions (2010) (minus publisher packages)
THE PROCESS
Library staff can assist in this process as required by the Deans and faculty. We can provide journal pricing information for new titles in print, microform, or electronic options for purchasing specific journal titles, aggregator packages of subject collections, publisher packages of bundled journals, or journals from commercial full-text databases. Contact H. Heydorn (479-4522) for purchasing options and pricing.
Library staff have prepared Excel spreadsheets for the faculty of each College to aid in making decisions. The spreadsheets include the print and microform journals that are being purchased by the Library to support the programs and courses in that College. The list includes the journal titles, price, format, and the results of the two separate "Print Journal Usage Surveys" conducted in 2007 and again in 2008. Electronic journals currently accessible along with usage for 2008 is also provided. When using the electronic journals usage report, please keep in mind that quite a number of these titles are available to us either for free through the Connecticut Digital Library or through open access collections. Additional journal titles are available through full-text databases to which the Library has a subscription. Identifying these titles is another area in which Library staff can provide assistance to faculty. H. Heydorn (x4522) is the contact person.
The Library has a long standing policy regarding the journals collection. If a journal title is to be added, a title or titles of equal cost need to be dropped. To submit a request for a new journal title, please work through your Department Chair and Dean.
Opportunities remain to provide journals in an electronic format thereby making them accessible to the wider University community, including our students and faculty on the main campus, our students studying abroad, our faculty teaching and conducting research overseas, and students and faculty at locations in California, Virginia and elsewhere.
Electronic Journals can be purchased in several ways:
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From Publishers directly -- single titles acquired directly from the publisher or obtained through our serials vendor, EBSCO
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Publishers' packages of journals
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Aggregated sets and packages
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Commercial Full-text Databases -- less permanent access because if the database subscription is canceled, access is immediately lost. In addition, publishers can pull titles from the database at any time.
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We actually own the content even if we cancel the subscription:
JSTOR
JSTOR's website is at: http://www.jstor.org/
Costs for JSTOR for UNH as well as shelf space saved
CANCELLED JOURNALS
The Journals listed below are on the CANCEL list. If you have an objection to a particular title being cancelled or if you object to the cancellation of any of the journal titles below, please contact H. Dobi as soon as possible.
New Journal Requsts
To submit a request for a new journal title, please work through your Department Chair and Dean.
Please contact H. Dobi (x7191) with any questions or comments.
BACKGROUND
Over the past several years the Library has converted more and more of its journal holdings to electronic versions. After a similar journals review in 2006, in the Summer of 2008, the Library sent to each College Dean a list of the journal subscriptions the Library held for their College. An Excel report of print journal subscriptions for each College was arranged by Department for faculty review and includes paper titles with recorded usage of the print from September 2007 - May 2008 along with any microform titles. The Library indicated that it would be converting as many journal titles as fiscally possible to an electronic version in that next renewal cycle. We believe this will provide better access to the journals collection and increase usage. Faculty were asked to identify any titles which they absolutely need to have in print and return the list to the Head Librarian. Based on this input the Library moved to a mostly electronic journal collection with less than 300 print journal subscriptions being held. The Library pays for 200 print subscriptions and still receives about 100 print journals as gifts from individuals or gifts and exchanges from publishers or other libraries. The vast majority of our journal collection is now available electronically.
This page was last updated on 21 March 2011.
