As of 19 December 2014
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Branch | Database | Reason for cancellation |
David Lam | MSCI ESG Stats | Grant funding source unavailable. |
David Lam | Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage | Low usage; alternative resources: MergentOnline and S&P Capital IQ. Consulted with Sauder finance and accounting faculty. |
Koerner | Access World News | Significant duplication with other sources. |
Koerner | American History in Video | Content insufficiently academic. |
Koerner | Berg Fashion Library (reduced simultaneous users) | Reduction in seats driven by low usage rate. |
Koerner | Family and Society Studies | Low use, high cost per use. |
Koerner | Library Literature & Information Science with Full Text | Significant duplication. Faculty consultation. |
Koerner | Oxford Scholarship Online | Significant duplication. Important unique content could be purchased outright. |
Koerner | World History in Video | Content insufficiently academic. |
Multidisciplinary | AP images | Public-domain sources could be substituted. |
Multidisciplinary | Canadian Periodical Index | Significant duplication with other sources. Important unique content (for example, First Nations periodicals) could be subscribed to separately. |
Multidisciplinary | Christian Science Monitor (1908-2000) | Low use, high cost per use. |
Multidisciplinary | Films on Demand | Low use, high cost per use ; only a small subset of videos being utilized, will purchase selectively instead. |
Multidisciplinary | Hindawi membership | Unable to support paying author publishing costs in light of reduction. |
Multidisciplinary | InCites | Loss of partnership funding from UBC campus department to help support half the subscription costs; low use as compared to cost. |
Multidisciplinary | Lexis Nexis | Awaiting campus consultation. |
Multidisciplinary | Nucleic Acids Research membership | Unable to support paying author publishing costs in light of reduction. |
Multidisciplinary | OCLC Research Library Partnership | Unable to demonstrate value to continue support. |
Multidisciplinary | VAST: Academic Video Online | Low use, very high cost per use. |
Multidisciplinary | Wall Street Journal (1889-1996) | Low use, high cost per use. |
Multidisciplinary | Washington Post (1877-1997) | Low use, high cost per use. |
Okanagan | Book Reviews Index | Low use. |
Woodward | BIOSIS | High cost per use, faculty consultation. |
Woodward | Forestry Compendium | Low usage, faculty consultation. |
Woodward | Henry Stewart Talks | Low usage and widespread availability of high quality videos elsewhere. 3 videos accounted for 20% of usage. |
Woodward | International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA) | Low usage, faculty consultation. |
Woodward | Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts | Low usage, faculty consultation. |
Woodward | NetBase (Eng, Enviro, Food, Materials, Math, Stats) leased collections | Due to large price increases year after year, decided to purchase most highly used titles with endowment funds. |
Woodward | SAE Digital Library 1906-1963 backfile | Low usage. |
Woodward | TRAIL (Technical Reports Archive and Image Library) | We do not receive content; this is support for an OA resource. |