Collection Development and Assessment

Analyzing coverage overlap; data-driven decision making

As web-scale discovery services are more widely adopted, many ask if we really need subscriptions to specialty-subject databases - particularly those with consistently low usage. Often there's much more to the story than simple usage data. This presentation will investigate a wealth of data sources that can provide critically informative information.

Following this session, participants will have a sampling of multiple data points beyond simple usage data to inform renewal/cancellation decisions for specialty subject databases, and participants will be able to formulate strategies to inform renewal/cancellation decisions for specialty subject databases.

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