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That's the question posed in yesterday's ProfHacker column in The Chronicle of Higher Education. The question is especially relevant given that the cost of library database subscriptions has reached unsustainable heights. Your Marygrove librarians are curious - do we subscribe to databases that you've never used? Do you wish you could add a database to our offerings? If you had to take a stab at how much of the library budget goes toward database subscriptions, what would you say?
Read the whole article here: http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/reader-input-how-much-per-month-for-scholarly-database-access/34949
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Thanks--I posted a comment to the Chronicle article.
I don't know about dollar amounts, but this is an extremely important benefit to being a faculty member. There are databases I don't use because of my field of interest, but I use Proquest and Wilson Select or Gale or whichever they change it to VERY often. I think if an institution expects faculty to do scholarship, faculty are entitled to access to journals, be they print or electronic.
Thanks, Karen and Steffanie, for your comments!
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