Library Journal – TRLN to Forgo the Big Deal

In another blow to the big deal, the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) announced this week that it would not be renewing its bundled deal with Elsevier.

In December, NCSU Head of Collection Management Suzanne Weiner said that NCSU’s current Elsevier deal, negotiated through the TRLN, cost the library roughly $1.4 million annually. That translated into roughly 15 percent of NCSU’s $9.2 million collections budget. Under that arrangement some 38 percent of the libraries’ serials budget went to Elsevier, representing 11 percent of NCSU’s journals.