Cancellation Notice: Micromedex
Rationale for Cancellation of Library Resource
November 16, 2016
Title of resource: Micromedex
Cost of resource: $1,400 CAD
Reasons for Cancellation:
- Low use (less than 300 searches in 2015, less than 100 searches in 2016)
- High cost per use
Date Access Will Cease:
- Immediately
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at library@uoguelph.ca.
General Criteria for Cancellation of Electronic Resources
Cancellation decisions are in most cases based on one or more of the following criteria:
- Cost: The inflationary costs of scholarly information continue to rise annually. In addition, the Library’s budget is particularly impacted by currency fluctuations (over half of the Library’s scholarly resources are paid for in U.S. funds)
- Overlap: Significant content overlap with other Library resources
- Usage: Past usage of the resource by University of Guelph (including University of Guelph Humber) students, faculty, and staff
- Scholarly need: Alignment of a resource with the University’s curricular and research programs; The scholarly importance of the resource (its centrality to the discipline and to accreditation requirements); the Library will prioritise keeping full-text (e.g. journal subscriptions) over indexes (e.g. BIOSIS, Communications Abstracts)
The decision to cancel a resource is made only after considerable discussion and exploration of alternatives - for more detailed information on the process followed, please refer to the library's Collection Policy.