The aftermath of Big Deal cancellations and their impact on interlibrary loans
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
A "Big Deal" is a bundle of journals that is offered to libraries by publishers as a "one-price, one size fits all package" (Frazier, 2001). There have been several accounts of Big Deals cancellations by academic libraries in the scientific literature. This paper presents the finding of a literature review aimed at documenting the aftermath of Big Deal cancellation in University Libraries, particularly their impacts on interlibrary loan services. We find that many academic libraries have successfully cancelled their Big Deals, realizing budget savings while limiting negative effects on library users. In particular, existing literature reveals that cancellations have a surprisingly small effect on interlibrary loan requests. The reviewed studies further highlight the importance of access to proper usage data and inclusion of community members of the community (staff, faculty members, students, etc.) in the decision-making process.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it