Wiley Journal Package Cancellation @ IUS
The Wiley Journal Package that the IUS is proposing cancelling is know as a “Big Deal Package.” This is a subscription model offered by publishers in which libraries pay a large annual subscription for access to nearly ALL of a publisher’s journal content.
Big Deal Packages, like the Wiley Journal Package, can overburden and exhaust the library budget in several ways:
- Requiring large annual subscriptions that take up too much space in the Library’s collection budget
- Increasing annually at an on average rate of 4-5%
- Giving the perception that Libraries, even those with flat and reduced budgets, can and should provide subscription access or PDF full text access to everything produce by a publisher when alternative access models do exist and can meet campus needs.
Big Deals at the IUS Library
The IUS Library currently subscribes to 3 Big Deal packages:
- Elsevier College Edition Journal Packages ($55,012.21)
- Wiley Journal Package ($47,984.59)
- Sage Journal Package ($36,588.49)
Last fiscal year, these three journal packages accounted for 35% of the IUS Library’s collection budget. During the next fiscal year, the IUS Library collection will face another budget reduction.
The Library is proposing the cancellation of the Wiley Package, the least used of its Big Deal packages, as a way to create a more sustainable budget that will:
- Allow the IUS Library to meet its new collection budget.
- Allow the IUS Library to accommodate and plan for an electronic collection that increases on average $16,764 a year.
- Allow the IUS Library to expand or add new resources and services that have been requested by faculty and are the new norm in Library collections (streaming video, statistic databases, textbook affordability initiatives, Newspaper site licenses, etc.)
Wiley Journal Package Data and Alternate Access Methods
Wiley Package Breakdown
| Article Usage Group | Count of Journal Titles | % of Total Journals |
| 1-9 Uses | 750 | 73.10% |
| Never Used | 205 | 19.98% |
| 10 to 24 Uses | 54 | 5.26% |
| 25-49 Uses | 12 | 1.17% |
| 75-99 Uses | 3 | 0.29% |
| 100 + Uses | 1 | 0.10% |
| 50-74 Uses | 1 | 0.10% |
| Grand Total | 1026 | 100.00% |
*Since 2010, 10% of IUS faculty article scholarship has been published with Wiley
See complete list of Wiley Titles.
Alternate Access of Wiley content
Library Research has shown that the usage of individual journals that are a part of Big Deals to be clustered into a small portion of journal titles. The IUS Wiley package bares this out.
In terms of access to this Wiley content, the Library’s subscription to this package is not the lone option for faculty and students.
- Of the 214 journals that average 5 or more uses within the Wiley Package, 52% have some availability in other Library subscribed databases.
- Of the 1026 journals that are apart of the Wiley Package, 100% are available via the IUS Interlibrary loan service. This service fills article requests within 1-3 days.
- Two of the most used Wiley titles will become individual subscriptions and all access will be retained by IUS–Journal of Advanced Care Nursing & Journal of Clinical Nursing
- Other select Wiley Journals will be included in a new Articles on Demand service that allows faculty and students to discover this content in the same way, request them, and have them delivered to their email within 15 minutes. Instead of paying for a subscription, the IUS Library will pay per article request, which provides the library with considerable cost savings.
For information about these cancellations and/or for a complete list of the Wiley Package journals please contact Mitchell Scott (scotmi@iu.edu).