Florida Libraries may cancel journal subscriptions

The Independent Florida Alligator reports While students and faculty await a reconstructed, renovated, Starbucks-filled Library West, they may get a surprise they’re not quite waiting for – a cutback of $750,000 worth of academic journals and databases.
Smathers Libraries, the UF library system, plans to discontinue some academic journals and database subscriptions this summer to make up for the expected $750,000 deficit in the library’s 2007 budget.
The anticipated shortfall would occur because publishers plan to charge the library higher subscription costs to cover rising inflation, said John Ingram, the associate director of collections at the library.