Hi all, we now own Routledge ebooks from 2017, nearly 5,000 titles, on the Taylor & Francis platform. Since we’re in a time of budget reductions, I’ll clarify where these books came from. The publisher gave them to us — gratis. They are compensation, negotiated by the CSU team, incorporating evidence […]

Earlier in March, the International Coalition of Library Consortia, known as ICOLC, created a spreadsheet where libraries and consortia are collaboratively tracking COVID-19-inspired offers from vendors. You might be interested to take a look — it’s massive: https://bit.ly/ICOLCeas Because we are receiving so many offers, CSU has developed a position to […]

We recently reviewed the sources we license for Book Reviews. There was a lot of duplication of content and a high cost per use, so we decided to cancel the following databases when they come up for renewal: Book Index with Reviews (includes BIR Entertainment) Choice Reviews Online Fiction Core […]

The following subscriptions will not be renewed when they lapse in 2020: CBC Curio.ca – This subscription ends August 31, 2020 Criterion-on-Demand – This subscription ends September 30, 2020 Digital Theatre Plus – This subscription ends December 31, 2020

[This is the same message as was distributed on UALIB-L on March 25] Hello everyone, On behalf of CSU, I hope everyone is keeping as well as possible under the circumstances. There have been lots of collection-related questions and changes in the past couple of weeks. We want to thank […]