A plan by New Mexico State University to curtail its periodical and academic journal subscriptions has prompted unease among members of the campus community.
The journals especially offer the most up-to-date, peer-reviewed research - the information usually appears in books much later - and serve as the basis for the education system, said Alison Newby, an assistant professor of sociology.
"What's disturbing is that we're supposed to be a research university, and, as a research university, we need to keep up on what's going on," she said. "There's research going on in places other than NMSU. It can be very difficult to gain access to that if we don't have easy access to the latest journals in our field."
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Library officials said they'd release this week a finalized list of titles that will be cut from its electronic and hardcopy subscriptions. But it's expected to be about 750 of the 1,560 titles, including databases, newspapers, journals and microforms, to which the library directly subscribes, according to numbers from the library. However, it does have access to another 43,780 titles, when partnerships with other universities, free documents from the federal government are factored in.
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