Subscription Review History

2023 / 2024

The Western Libraries has finalized the outcomes of the 2023-24 subscription review process. These changes–most of which will take effect on January 1, 2025–are part of an ongoing effort to ensure that the university’s subscriptions portfolio remains dynamic and relevant. 

In winter quarter, the Libraries shared a list of 18 existing subscriptions under review and 8 new subscriptions requested by members of the university community. Based on the feedback we received, we will be canceling six (6) existing subscriptions in order to add three (3) new subscriptions to our collection. The impacted titles include: 

• Discourse (cancel)  
• Ecopsychology (new subscription) 
• Global Nineteenth-Century Studies (new subscription) 
• Journal of the Civil War Era (new subscription) 
• National Geographic (cancel) 
• Nineteenth-Century Literature (cancel) 
• Oxford Dictionaries: Language Matters (cancel) 
• The Orff echo (cancel) 
• The Yale Review (cancel) 

We are pleased to share that several of the canceled subscriptions will still be accessible through library databases like Academic Search Complete, Education Research Complete, and JSTOR. Articles not available on other platforms can be acquired through Interlibrary Loan (ILL). 

In addition to the new titles noted above, the Libraries will also be adding three (3) new subscriptions using Chemistry, Pre-Health, and Biology decision package funds. These subscriptions include: 

• Current Protocols in Plant Biology (new subscription) 
• Dalton Transactions (new subscription) 
• Review of Scientific Instruments (new subscription) 

Once active, these titles will be available to all Western students, faculty, and staff, and will become part of the annual subscription review process. 

If you have any questions about the titles, library subscriptions, or the subscription review process, please reach out to the Libraries’ Subject Teams or contact the Libraries’ Collection Services division. Western students, faculty, and staff can also continue to submit new subscription requests for next year’s review via our New Subscription Request Form. 

2022 / 2023

The Western Libraries has finalized the outcomes of the 2022-23 subscription review process. These changes–which will take effect on January 1, 2024–are part of an ongoing effort to ensure that the university’s subscriptions portfolio remains dynamic and relevant.

In winter quarter, the Libraries shared a list of 44 existing subscriptions under review and 14 new subscriptions requested by members of the university community. Based on the feedback we received, we will be canceling four (4) existing subscriptions in order to add three (3) new subscriptions to our collection. The impacted titles include:

• Archaeology (cancel)
• Human Development (cancel)
• Journal of Aesthetic Education (cancel)
• Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology (new)
• Philpapers (new)
• Review of Modern Physics (new)
• Texas Studies in Literature and Language (cancel)

We are pleased to share that the canceled subscriptions will still be accessible through library databases like Academic Search Complete, ProQuest Biological Sciences Database, and JSTOR. Individual articles not available on other platforms can be acquired through Interlibrary Loan (ILL).

If you have any questions about the titles, library subscriptions, or the subscription review process, please reach out to the Libraries’ Subject Teams or contact the Libraries’ Collection Services division. Western students, faculty, and staff can also continue to submit new subscription requests for next year’s review via our New Subscription Request Form.

2021 / 2022

The Western Libraries finalized the outcomes of the 2021-22 subscription review process in Spring of 2022. These changes–which will take effect on January 1, 2023–are part of an ongoing effort to ensure that the university’s subscriptions portfolio remains dynamic and relevant.

In winter quarter, 2022, the Libraries shared a list of 59 existing subscriptions under review and 18 new subscriptions requested by members of the university community. Based on the feedback we received, we will be canceling six (6) existing subscriptions in order to add seven (7) new subscriptions to our collection. Individuals affiliated with Western can log in to review the full list of titles.

We are pleased to share that most of the canceled subscriptions will still be accessible through library databases like Academic Search Complete, CINAHL Complete, and JSTOR. Individual articles not available on other platforms can be acquired through Interlibrary Loan (ILL).

If you have any questions, please reach out to the Libraries’ Subject Teams or contact the Libraries’ Collection Services division. Western students, faculty, and staff can also continue to submit new subscription requests for next year’s review via our New Subscription Request Form.