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FY23 University Libraries Collections

Proposed Discontinuations

Below is a list of proposed electronic resources considered for cancellation, including the annual cost, use during the past year, and the cost per use. Please use this online form to recommend retaining these resources, please submit comments before January 14, 2022.

Resource Total Cost FY21 Use Cost per Use Description
Bible In English $450 8 $56.25 A digital resource that contains twenty versions of the Bible. In addition to the twelve complete Bibles, there are five New Testament works, two Gospel works and William Tyndale's New Testament, Pentateuch and Jonah translations.
BioOne Complete $10,966.79 495 $22.16 A database of more than 200 subscribed and open-access titles in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
Book Review Digest Plus $5,805.00 62 $93.63 A full-text database that provides access to book reviews on a wide range of topics from a variety of sources, including newspapers, review journals and popular magazines. 
MagillOnLiterature Plus

$2,761.00

12 $230.08 A full-text database of editorially reviewed critical analyses, character studies, author biographies and plot summaries of the most studied literary works.
MathSciNet $10,031.45 39 $257.22

A database providing access to global mathematical literature, as well as signed reviews and bibliographic data from Mathematical Reviews from January 1940 onwards.

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print $5,128.00 24 $213.67 A database for evaluating contemporary testing instruments. It contains full-text reviews for test products in psychology, education, business and leadership. In addition, it provides a bibliography to all known commercially available English-language tests currently in print.
Oxford American National Biography $680.85 10 $68.09 An online reference tool that provides portraits of more than 19,000 men and women who have helped shaped America.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography $1,746.25 23 $75.92 An online reference tool with information on over 60,000 notable figures whom have shaped British history.