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Trend FY07‐FY16: MERLIN Pooled Resources
Cuts by Subject
$250,000.00
Engineering
$230,290.00
Web of Science, Ovid User Licenses not included
General
$222,069.37
Final Annual Subscription Costs
$200,000.00
Health
$142,397.84
$150,000.00
Science
$122,891.14
$100,000.00
$50,000.00
Arts & Humanities
$4,657.00
Business
$4,320.00
$0.00
Social Science
$8,642.00
Subject
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Trend FY07‐FY16: MERLIN Pooled Resources
Cuts Per Subject By Year
Business
Engineering
General
Health
Science
Arts & Humanities
$250,000
no cuts in FY07‐FY08, FY13
not included: Web of Science, Ovid User Licenses
$66,017
$200,000
Final Annual Subscription Costs
Social Science
$35,010
$150,000
$8,642
$13,617
$23,940
$13,546
$100,000
$4,657
$18,175
$136,591
$127,713
$7,678
$50,000
$93,699
$93,771
$53,836
$26,975
$7,081
$4,320
$0
FY09
FY10
FY11
FY12
FY14
FY15
FY16
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Trend FY07 ‐ FY16: MERLIN Pooled Resources
Running Total of Cuts
Cut Costs
Cut Count
$1,200,000
25
Not included: Web of Science, Ovid User Licenses
$1,087,410.35
$1,000,000
$930,358.10 $937,439.10
22
20
18
$800,000
17
$660,794.98
$692,090.28
15
14
$600,000
$544,191.78
13
11
$413,006.92
10
$400,000
7
5
$200,000
3
0
0
FY07
FY08
$0
0
FY09
FY10
FY11
FY12
FY13
FY14
FY15
FY16
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MERLIN Cuts, FY07‐FY16
Number Resource
1
Current Contents
FY Cut Cost in Final FY Subject
FY09
$53,835.60 General
2
Web of Science
FY09
$351,493.00 General
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
Faculty of 1000 Biology
Environmental Science & Pollution Management
INSPEC
Poole's Plus
LexisNexis Statistical SRI Module
Arts & Humanities Index
Company of Biologists
Core Biomedical
Ovid Biomed Collection II
Annual Reviews Economics Collection
LexisNexis Statistical Base, ASI, IIS
Gold Rush
Ovid Nursing I Collection
Biological Abstracts
Ei Compendex
FY09
FY10
FY10
FY10
FY10
FY11
FY11
FY11
FY11
FY12
FY12
FY13
FY14
FY14
FY14
$7,678.32
$23,940.00
$93,699.00
$7,462.80
$6,083.06
$4,657.00
$18,175.00
$49,243.20
$44,528.00
$4,320.00
$26,975.30
$650.00
$35,010.00
$66,016.82
$136,591.00
18
American Institute of Physics Online
FY15
19
20
21
22
LexisNexis Academic
Library Literature Full Text
Annual Reviews
Nature Clinical Reviews
Total
FY16
FY16
FY16
FY16
Omitted from these charts due to replacement by other databases
Science
Science
Engineering
General
General
Arts & Humanities
Science
Health
Health
Business
General
Health
Science
Engineering
$7,081.00 Science
$103,072.61
$8,642.00
$24,640.00
$13,616.64
$1,087,410.35
Notes
Access fee was eliminated due to restructuring of subscription
General
Social Science
General
Health
*also cut but not included here: Ovid User Licenses (from 94 in FY07 to 33 in FY16)
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