On March 30, the SUNY Libraries contract with Elsevier, a leading publisher of STEM and social science journals, ended. Hudson Valley benefited from this system-wide license and had access to nearly 3,000 peer-reviewed journals; however this access came at a great price to SUNY libraries. After nearly a year of negotiations, SUNY and Elsevier reached agreement on a considerably smaller package of journals with reduced annual cost.
Maintaining the full collection would have committed unsustainably large percentages of annual journal budgets for most SUNY libraries. All SUNY libraries now have access to 250 core titles; access to the full text of all journals from the full collection and published from 2010-2019 is available in perpetuity. Articles from journals that are no longer available in the full collection will be obtained through resource sharing (formerly known as interlibrary loan) and other means on request.
Hudson Valley’s access to its top-used journals within the collection is largely unaffected. Computers and Human Behavior, by far the most-used journal title in the collection, is retained in the smaller set. The impact on student research at our campus is expected to be minimal.
Faculty and staff who are completing advanced degrees at other institutions (University at Albany, for example) are encouraged to determine if journal access is available at their degree-granting institution by checking with their library; to support graduate studies and research, SUNY university centers are more likely to have additional ScienceDirect titles beyond the core collection available from Hudson Valley.
Please direct any questions to Library Director Brenda Hazard.
Published: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 11:55:52 +0000 by b.hazard