Periodicals and Journals

Because serials represent an ongoing commitment, budgeting and selection of these differ somewhat from procedures for monographs. Each spring, librarians will review the renewal list from the jobber through which most of the Library's standing orders are placed. Faculty involvement will be sought through the discipline coordinators. Faculty advice will be sought before any major changes are made.

Some or all of these criteria are used in evaluating periodical titles for acquisition or cancellation:

a. support of academic curriculum;

b. strength of existing collection;

c. present use of this or other periodicals in this subject area;

d. indexing and full-text availability online on GALILEO;

e. projected future use;

f. cost and projected availability of funds;

g. reputation of journal and/or inclusion in prominent abstracting or indexing sources;

h. if not owned, number of recent interlibrary loan requests for this title

magazine, magazines