Can faculty donate personal copies of their subscription to the Library?
The Library appreciates the offer, but in most cases, publishers have different pricing structures for individuals and institutions and the cost to individuals is typically much less. Publishers do not expect the personal copy to be used in a Library, and doing so may create a conflict. In those rare cases in which it may be allowed, experience has shown it to be impractical. The Library uses a service to handle subscriptions and business transactions with hundreds of publishers for thousands of journals. Individual arrangements can be quite time-consuming and result in gaps or delays in receiving issues. Processing individual gift copies is staff intensive and simply not scalable.
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