Publisher |
Expiration Year |
Duration of Current Contract |
Springer-Nature |
2023 |
4 years |
Elsevier |
2023 |
3 years |
Sage |
2024 |
3 years |
Wiley |
2024 |
3 years |
Taylor & Francis |
2025 |
5 years |
License Negotiation Principles
USU endorses the model license and licensing principles put forward by the Greater Western Library Alliance. On the basis of those documents, GWLA negotiates and manages some of USU’s big deals. Those same principles—sustainability and transparency, access and privacy, and supporting scholarship—are central to our own negotiation process when we work directly with publishers.
In the event that subscription costs exceed available funding, we may begin unbundling one or more of journal packages. Below is the process we currently anticipate using, and we encourage your feedback along the way.
Help us unbundle
Offer the Library your feedback in our unbundling project (if requested in the “Current Status” section). In particular, once we have made a preliminary choice about which package to unbundle, we want to hear what value that publisher provides to your research and teaching. After we finalize the choice of publisher to unbundle, we want to know if you agree with our assessment of which journals in your field to maintain individual (unbundled) subscriptions to.
Carefully contextualize research impact
In the promotion-and-tenure process, emphasize methods of showing research impact other than journal-level impact factors.
Support sustainable publishing models
Consider publishing in reputable Open Access journals. Open Access shifts the costs away from Library subscription budgets while making your research results freely available to the world.
Access articles ethically
Learn how to use Library services to access articles we don’t own.
The Library values the feedback of USU faculty, staff, and students as we work to determine the most cost-effective use of journal-subscription funds. Subject-liaison librarians will contact faculty at key points for specific feedback about journal subscriptions to maintain. New mechanisms may be developed for that feedback, and you can find up-to-date information on those on this page.
Meanwhile, feel free to contact your assigned liaison at any time with questions about the process or suggestions about specific publishers or journals. If you don’t know the librarian that works with your department visit the Subject Librarian List and search for your department’s name. Then use the phone number or email address listed to contact the person who is the closest match.
Contact your liaison librarian with any questions about unbundling. Search for your department on our Subject Liaison List to find your librarian and their contact information.