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“The freedom to read whateverpiqued my curiosity, and to have accessto such a wide range of texts, was one of themost rewarding aspects of my undergrad years, andis probably what I will miss most. Thank youfor allowing alumni to continue to usethis library.” –TavishCollectionsThe past year was a tumultuous one at the Library.As the Canadian dollar lost value againstthe US dollar, and the University faced significantbudget pressures, we began planning reductionsto our acquisitions program. Happily,due to an improved exchange rate, and muchneeded support from the University administration,in the end the reductions were not as severeas first anticipated. As part of the process,liaison librarians consulted with departments tolearn where cancellations would have the leastimpact, resulting in cancellations of over 700serial subscriptions. As the yearendexpenditure figuresshow, we spent $2.9million on books, andthe remaining $5.9million on serials.Motivated in partby steeply rising costs,the Library continued to workon scholarly communication issues relevantto the SFU community. During Open AccessWeek in October 2009, we hosted a campuswideevent called “Open Data in the City ofVancouver”. It consisted of workshops on journalpublishing support provided by the Library.For Library staff, we provided a report on newresearch regarding Open Access support atCanadian universities.In February 2009, the Senate Library Committeeendorsed the Library’s Open AccessStrategy, allowing us to move forward on severalfronts including the establishment of auniversity-wide central fund for Open Access,making SFU the third Canadian university to doso. The fund supports SFU authors who publishin Open Access journals that charge articleprocessing fees, and has been taken up withgreat enthusiasm by SFU researchers.Despite serious budget pressures faced bythe Library in 2009/10, we continued buildingcollections in support of the University’swork. The list of significant new resourcesbelow spans every discipline and includesseveral exciting new formats, including publicperformance rights for streaming videos fromthe National Film Board of Canada, online anatomical3-D pictures and videos from PrimalPictures, SFU’s first set of Chinese languagejournals (described by one faculty member as“the Chinese JSTOR”), and several detailedcollections of newly digitized historical documents.We also added the online archive of TheEconomist from 1843 forward, a new platformfor the primary database in Chemistry, and anonline set of International Company Historiesto support students in Business Administration.We welcome members of the SFU communityto explore these rich new resourcesduring the course of their work, and as always,we welcome suggestions for new acquisitionsand collecting strategies.4 SFU Library Annual Report 2009-10
New resources• Bibliography of British & Irish History• British Literary Manuscripts Online (Gale),Part 1: c. 1660 to 1900 & Part 2: Medieval& Renaissance• British Periodicals (Proquest) BritishPeriodicals Release I - Early BritishPeriodicals• Canadian Entomologist & memoirs of theEntomological Society of Canada• Canadian Foreign Relations Index• Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961:Canada, Caribbean and USA (Adam Matthew)• China Academic Journals (Eastview)• Series F (Literature/History/Philosophy)• Series G (Politics/Military Affairs/Law)• Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive• Counseling and Therapy in Video• Design ProFILES & DAR: Design AbstractsRetrospective• Dictionary of Irish Biography• Digital National Security Archive (ProQuest)• The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003 (Gale/Cengage)• Eighteenth Century Collections Online – PartII (Gale)• Film and Television Literature Index withfulltext• Foreign Office Files for China, 1949-1980(Adam Matthew)• Gnomon Workshop• Henry Stewart Talks• International Directory of Company Historiescomplete set• John Johnson Collection of PrintedEphemera• JSTOR - Regional Collections – Ireland(purchased from credit on account)• JSTOR - Arts & Sciences VIII Collection(purchased from credit on account)• JSTOR – 19th century British pamphletsproject (purchased from credit on account)• Literary Encyclopedia• Lynda.com• Medline with fulltext• Naxos Music Library• NFB.ca – public performance subscriptionto streaming video• Primal Pictures (OVID)• Reaxys• Research Starters – Business• Sage e-journal backfiles• State Papers Online (Gale) pt 2 & 3SFU Library Annual Report 2009-10 5
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