Franklin said every month the Health Sciences Center Library measures how many titles are being used and how important they are to the different disciplines. Also, she said, faculty members are encouraged to submit new journal requests anytime. John Tagler, the vice president of marketing for electronic publishing at Reed Elsevier, a medical journal publishing firm, said the company understands the effects of these price increases on university libraries, whose subscriptions have continued to decline over the last decade. And we want to work with libraries to find an alternative to the pricing spiral. Despite the ensuing journal cutbacks, some students said they think changing which print journals are stocked will not impair their research capabilities.
Most students rely on online journal articles for their research because it is much more convenient.
But other students said the elimination of any journals will have a significant impact on their research. I have already had difficulty finding journals that I need. If Emory eliminates journals, this will become an even greater problem.