Ongoing Commitments/ Subscription-Based Resources

With all subscription-based collection resources or purchases with annual access fees, the RMU Library analyzes usage statistics and continuing need when examining current subscriptions and considering potential subscriptions.

Other criteria considered include:

• Curriculum needs; faculty requests
• Accessibility: supports IP authentication and EZ-Proxy access; Open-URL compliant
• Usability: user-friendliness, compatibility with multiple browsers, multiple operating systems; does not require downloading of special software
• Discoverability of content
• Uniqueness; fills a previously unfilled curriculum or research niche
• Number of potential users
• Availability of usage statistics
• Availability of price increase caps in licensing agreements
• Vendor reliability, responsiveness