University Library Committee 1995-1996

Memo from N.G. Deshpande on serials cut

The following is an e-mail communication received from N. G. Deshpande on 1 February 1996 regarding the serials cancellation project. It is posted with his permission.

Physics was asked to cut its serial budget by 22.8%. This amounts to $72,874 of the total Physics allocation of $319,453. We have gone through the list of journals and identified approximately $30,000 worth of journals that could be cancelled. Including previously approved cancellation of $6,629 for this year, this brings our total cuts to approximately $37,000, half of the requested amount. I would also like to point out that in the period 1992-1995 (in the previous journal cancellation), Physics cancellations amounted to $35,797.

I wish to bring to your attention the serious consequences of any cuts beyond those we have identified. As you are aware, the Physics Department has a tradition of diversity in its research interests. Our faculty is very active in research, and members play a leading role in research carried out at the Institute of Theoretical Science, Materials Science Institute, Chemical Physics Institute, and the Institute of Molecular Biology. Any further cuts will seriously endanger our research mission. Every journal that is not on the cut list is actually being utilized by our faculty. I would like the University to examine at the highest level the consequences of such a draconian cut in our serial budjet. Either the library budget committee will have to change its priorities, or new sources of support for journals must be found. I believe 22% cuts in the serial budget is unacceptable.

I realize that costs for journals are rising faster than inflation and some cost control is necessary. It may be that as new technology becomes more widely available, the journals will go electronic, reducing the cost. We need a plan to get us through the next few years before the benefits of the new technology are realized.

I give below the list of journals that can be cut and those that have been cut in previous cuts.

        Appendix A:  New cut list.

Acoustical Physics                               $ 999
Advances in Mass Spectrometry                      197
Applied Spectroscopy                               189
Astrophysical Journal (Pine Mtn copy)              799
Astrophysics and Space Science                   3,024
Australian Journal of Physics                      348
Celestial Mechanics and Dyn. Astronomy             954
Comptes Rendus... series I (math)                 1,535
Frontiers in Physics                               119
IEEE Transactions on Prof. Commun.                  87
Indian Journal of Physics. Part A.                 360
Indian Journal of PUre & Applied Sci.              206
INIS Atomindex                                     793
Integrated Circuits. Digital.                      230
Integrated circuits.  Linear                       230
Journal of Electronic Materials                    239
Journal of Hydrology                              2,624
Journal of Imaging Sci & Tech                      123
Journal of Materials Educ                          265
Measurement Science and Technology                 904
Nuclear Data Sheets                                655
Nuclear Science & Engineering                      442
Physics and Chemistry of the Earth                 692
Physics in Medicine & biology                      988
Physics of Atomic Nuclei                          2,614
Planetary and Space Science                       1,473
Prog. in Nuclear Mag Res Spectroscopy               415
Russian Physics Journal                            1,430
Seismological Research Letters                        60
Solid State and Supercond. Abstracts               1,046
Symp. on combustion                                  203
Synthetic Metals                                   2,337
Technical Physics                                  2,255
Technical Physics Letters                          1,416

Total                                            $30,242

 
        Appendix B:  Previously cut journals.  
Level I
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Astrophysics                                       898
Boston Studies in the Phil of Sci                 1469
Bull of the Russ Acad of Sci. Physics             1313
Hadronic Journal                                   271
Hadronic Journal supplements                       166   
Journal of Nuclear Materials                      3331

Level II:
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Annales de L'I.H.P. Physique theorique            717

Annals of Nuclear energy                           891

Applied Scientific Research                        515
Contributions to Plasma Physics                    630
Current papers in Physics                          407
Czech J. of Physics                                677
Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans                  491  (picked up by
geog.)
Energy Abstracts                                    964
Int. Journal of Mass Spectrometry                  2469
Journal of the Mech. and Phys of Solids            1528
Liquid Crystals                                    2293
Moscow Univ of Physics Bull                         729
Radiation Research                                  583
Radiochimica Acta                                   953
X-Ray Spectrometry                                   637

Level III cuts:
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Advances in Nuclear Science & Tech                   65
Astronomische Nachrichten                           366
Dialogue                                             62
Experiments in fluids                               748
Fiziki, Astronomii                                   78
Inst of Phys Conf series                            228
Interciencia                                         62
International J of applied electromag               218
JOM: J of the Minerals, Metals and Mater. soc        93
Journal of Rheology                                 365
Journal of Technical Physics                        125
Journal of amer Soc for Mass Spectrometry           307
Journal of the Atmosph. Sciences                    365 (picked up by geog)
Key Abstracts: Electronic Inst.                     161
Notes and Records. Royal Soc GB                      61
Physik Daten                                         27
Prog in Astronautics and Aeronautics                 122
Quarterly J of Mech and appl. Mathematics            218
Radio Science                                         261
Research Policy                                       366
(picked up by Business)
Subnuclear Series                                     118
Tellus. Series A. Dyn. Meteorology                    257 (picked up by
geog)
Topics in Current Physics                             50
Trans. American Nuclear Society                         328
Vestnik Moskovskogo Ser III: Astronomii                 78
Acta Astronautica                                       1604
Acta Metallurgica et Materialia                         766
Acustica                                                620
Contemporary Physics                                     312
Few Body Systems                                         452
Fusion Technology: J of the Amer Nuc Soc                 495
Infrared Physics                                         742
International J of Electronics                           938
International J of Pixe                                  250
Journal of Atmospherical and Terr. Phys                 1453
Nuclear Fusion                                           386
Physikalische Blatter                                    188
Scripta Metallurgica et Materialia                       530

N.G. Deshpande,Institute of Theoretical Science,University of Oregon Eugene OR 97403

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