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Monograph and Serial Costs in ARL Libraries 1998-2018
In 20 years, libraries in the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) saw their expenditures on ongoing commitments (serials and databases) increase by 166%. During the same time period, the CPI increased 54%. (source)
Background Information
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Big Deal Cancellation Tracking - SPARCThe Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition summarizes academic libraries' decisions to discontinue big deals.
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OA, AI, and DEI—Triple Advantage or Triple Threat? Periodicals Price Survey 2024Library Journal's annual price survey finds that spending on serials continues to consume library budgets.
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Libraries Abandon Expensive "Big Deal" Subscription Packages to Multiple JournalsArticle from The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2011
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When the Wolf Finally Arrives: Big Deal Cancellations in North American LibrariesBlog Post from The Scholarly Kitchen.
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The “80/20 Rule” and Core JournalsNisonger, T. E. (2008). The “80/20 Rule” and Core Journals. The Serials Librarian, 55(1–2), 62–84.
Research consistently finds that approximately 20% of the journals in a library's collection accrue 80% of the total usage. Although Big Deals significantly increase the number of journals to which libraries have access, they frequently include many titles that are only minimally used.