With the current economic climate challenges, accompanied by changes in campus research and curricular directions, all UC libraries are in the process of reviewing licensed electronic resources that carry ongoing subscription costs. Reductions to collections budgets across the UC system may necessitate reductions in book, journal, and database electronic expenditures. Within the coming years, UC libraries will continue to use the consultative process involving key UC stakeholders (i.e. UC-wide Academic Senate's University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication: UCOLASC (http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/senate/committees/ucolasc/); UC Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee: SLASIAC (http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/planning/slasiac/); Council of University Librarians: CoUL (http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/about/uls.html); and other local campus faculty groups). In addition, UC libraries will strive to minimize the overall increase in expenditure for UC-wide licensed electronic resource content whenever possible through cooperative efforts led by the UC California Digital Library's Collection Development & Management Program staff.

At UC Davis we invite you (faculty, students and staff), to identify licensed packages of ejournal titles, books, and databases that do not fulfill the expected critical needs of campus core academic and/or emerging programs. We encourage you to provide us with feedback about the addition or cancellation of content before the package renewal deadlines and final disposition decisions are made. See the CDL web site for a list (http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/resources/) of the current UC-wide licensed resources and select the entry, CDL Managed Resources (xls document), and for a list (http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/publisher_info/index.html) of journal titles included in each current UC-wide ejournals package.

For more information and details about the Library Collections: A Forum web site and about the review process, please see the More Details page.

If you have questions or comments regarding this web site, please contact: Gail Yokote, AUL for Collections (gyokote@ucdavis.edu).