Database and Journal Cancellations

Every year, Auraria Library reviews resource subscriptions and negotiates with publishers and vendors to provide access to resources that help with learning, teaching, and research on Auraria campus. Over 80% of the Library’s Learning Materials budget is allocated to ongoing journal packages and databases (subscriptions) that have 5-6% average increases from vendors each year. Strategies including price negotiations, memorandums of understanding (MOUs), small cancellations, and grants have been used to mitigate these annual increases; however, with our library materials budget remaining mostly unchanged for a decade, Auraria Library needs to occasionally cancel subscriptions. Cancellations during normal years cover publisher price increases not a major budget cut. 

As with others on Auraria campus, Auraria Library was affected by budget cuts announced by University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) in fiscal year (FY) 2023.The library was informed that we would have a 4% reduction in our budget for FY 2024 and an additional 2.6% reduction in FY 2025. One-third of the library's budget is used for purchasing or subscribing to learning materials (LM) such as databases, journals, books, ebooks, streaming media, newspapers, data and statistical sources, DVDs, anatomical models, and more. Therefore, reductions to the LM budget would need to be made. The Library determined that in FY 2024 and FY 2025, $508,791 would need to be cut from the learning materials budget.