[BOAI] Unbundling the Big Deal: An interview with SUNY's Shannon Pritting

[Richard Poynder]

In April, the State University of New York (SUNY) -- a system of 64
institutions -- unbundled its Big Deal with Elsevier. In doing so, it has
replaced its subscription package of 2,200 Elsevier journals with a "little
deal" of just 248 journals. By unbundling, says SUNY, it has saved about $7
million.

 

How is a decision to unbundle made, and what are the issues and implications
of making the decision? To get a clearer picture I spoke recently by email
with Shannon Pritting, Shared Library Services Platform Project Director at
SUNY.

 

The interview can be read here: 

https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpoynder.blogspot.com%2F2020%2F07%2Funbundling-big-deal-interview-with.html&data=01%7C01%7Cboai-forum%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7C9fdb347adab64514ef6808d83521f672%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=BROFzPCVR86NrOLSv4TKHmKEG2rwGP%2BedkGBGnwHaG8%3D&reserved=0

 

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