In other cases, the library pays an additional fee on top of the print subscription to provide access online. If the print subscription is cancelled, the price of the online subscription goes up to a rate comparable to the previous print cost, or higher. It is important to note that publishers frequently treat institutional subscriptions differently than they do individual subscriptions. For example, a number of academic journals provide free online access to their individual print subscribers, while requiring that institutional subscribers pay to receive the same access. There are many variations on these themes.
Publishers sometimes provide free access for a limited period as part of their marketing plan.
They hope that users of their journals will lobby their librarians to continue these titles online when the publisher begins to charge for electronic access. Another kind of access is free access to tables of contents, or tables of contents and abstracts only. Again, there is a fee to view the actual articles. The UI Libraries has been forced to conduct general cancellation projects several times in this decade. There are several ways in which faculty and others can assist the Libraries in addressing this problem.