After receiving input from several library units, as well as ISUE staff and FE librarians, we made the decision to cancel FirstSearch effective December 31, 2023. Staff let us know that they use Worldcat.org for the type of searches we would once have done via FirstSearch, so this subscription was […]
For the last few years, UAL has participated in a “Custom Choice” program with ProQuest whereby we committed to a certain level of spending on many of their primary source databases, and in exchange were granted access to a much larger collection of resources. At this stage, 90% of the […]
The CSU librarians recently reviewed 23 online biographical resources. We used criteria such as annual cost, usage, cost per use, duplication of content, links on LibGuides, and relevance of the content for the University’s curriculum to determine which titles we could cancel. We decided to cancel three databases, including Biography Index: Past […]
We’ve begun adding cancellation notes, such as the one below, to titles on the A-Z Databases list: If you receive questions concerning any of these databases, you can direct them to contact csu@ualberta.ca
Hello everyone, this post is to let you know of two database cancellations, effective December 31, 2019. We have cancelled two EBSCO databases, Chicano and AP Images. Please refer to Elizabeth Wallace’s January 13 email to UALIB-L for details about resources that the CSU team is considering cancelling, and about which we are earnestly […]