Creating Team Lists

The Value Thresholds were developed by Collections using our aggregated cost and use data in additional to interlibrary loan data.  

Applying Value Thresholds

Once all the data was gathered and incorporated back into the Master List 2016 we created lists for each Team (GS, FAH, SS, STEM and COLL) with all the Austin electronic journals/packages for each team.

Then the Value Thresholds for the corresponding team was applied using the Average CPU and the Average Use.

These were color coded to make sorting easier, see the table below for a key:

Marking High Percentage of Increase Titles

In addition, the percentage of increase for titles was evaluated and color coded to indicate increases that bear consideration or review.

Here is the color key for that:

Team Review List breakdown

Once titles in the main Team list were color coded and sorted we pulled titles into the Team Review List as follows:

Consideration List - contains titles in the Unacceptable and Low category (COUNTER or Vendor stats only)

Review List - contains titles in the Incomplete category due to no Average CPU (newer titles, titles with no statistics); titles that have had one or more years of above average cost increases (some exceptions, see below); titles that are duplicated in Project Muse or BioOne; and titles with Clickthrough statistics

Price Increase Exceptions

We made some exceptions for price increase:

1. Anything that we added online access or saw a jump in price for going online only
2. Anything that came out of a System package the year of the increase