ACS Chicago 2007 Delivering chemical information in the age of tight budgets: Faculty and librarian cooperation at Trinity University Steven M. Bachrach Department of Chemistry Barbara MacAlpine Coates Library Trinity University San Antonio TX 78212

ACS Chicago 2007 Trinity University Private Liberal Arts University –Engineering and Business Administration –Master’s Degrees in Accounting, Health Care Administration, School Administration, School Psychology, Teaching Small School –2487 Undergraduates –231 Graduate students –228 Faculty

ACS Chicago 2007 Department of Chemistry 8 full-time, tenure track faculty in all of the major disciplines of chemistry Graduate chemistry and biochemistry majors annually ACS certified program

ACS Chicago 2007 Research Activities $710,000 external grants Average 10+ peer reviewed publications per year Seven post-doctoral associates Research program involves undergraduate students, primarily through the Summer Research Program

ACS Chicago Summer Research Program

ACS Chicago 2007 Student Research Average 40 students each summer Presentations at National ACS meetings (10 this meeting), PittCon, and regional meetings Co-authors on most of our published papers

ACS Chicago 2007 Coates Library Books and bound periodical volumes: > 937,000 Journal subscriptions: ~2,400 titles Journal access: ~24,000 titles Recipient of the 2007 ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award

ACS Chicago 2007 Coates Library Total Acquisitions Budget 2006—2007$1,605, —2006$1,574, —2005$1,499, —2004$1,427, —2003$1,327,950

ACS Chicago 2007 Approach to Chemical Information Delivery (beginning ) Department defined goals –Access to research-grade information –Incorporation of primary literature into the research program –Incorporation of primary literature into the classroom throughout the curriculum

ACS Chicago 2007 Define “Access” Key component identified: “finding article(s) of interest” So “access” becomes principally useful searching of chemical databases

ACS Chicago 2007 Useful Chemical Searching Important databases owned in 2001 –Print CA –Print Science Citation Index Making them “useful” –SciFinder –Web of Science

ACS Chicago 2007 Access to Articles Need not be through own holdings Transition to electronic access Premium on scope –Can we get to any and all journals? Secondary is speed –How long until article in one’s hand?

ACS Chicago 2007 Phase 1 – Fall 2002 Librarians approach department with the annual “generate the hit list” request

ACS Chicago 2007 Department’s response: Cancel print CA Cancel Tetrahedron Letters Purchase single-seat SciFinder license Establish department line item for one-day document delivery with CISTI

ACS Chicago 2007 SciFinder in the classroom First introduced in second semester of first year (organic chemistry lab) Instruction by science librarian Assignment to search on pinacol rearrangement, locate a recent article in an organic chemistry journal and summarize the article All subsequent lab classes require some search and reporting (compound information, introductory materials to lab reports, etc.)

ACS Chicago 2007 SciFinder Search Statistics 2006—2007 5,083 (June-Feb. 07) 2005—20067, —20057, —20048, —20036,295

ACS Chicago 2007 Phase 2 – Cancel print ACS journals Consortial arrangements to get electronic access to full ACS suite and additional Wiley publications ACS journal backfile Web of Science

ACS Chicago 2007 Trinity University Consortia TICUL (Texas Independent College & University Libraries) – provides access to all ACS journals GWLA (Greater Western Library Alliance – provides access to many Wiley journals (along with TICUL) Oberlin Group – provides WoS

ACS Chicago 2007 ACS online journal downloads 2006—2007 5,635 (June-Jan. 07) 2005—20065, —20055,191

ACS Chicago 2007 Phase 3 – 2006-current Library unilaterally cancels all Elsevier journal subscriptions Creates accounts for each department with ScienceDirect –allow faculty to purchase articles as needed for $30/each Current chemistry journal subscriptions - 61

ACS Chicago 2007 Department’s response Disappointed in lack of input Loss of “our” money Loss of control

ACS Chicago 2007 New directions With cost savings from Elsevier cancellations, exploring –RSC backfile (single-time purchase) –Elsevier MDL Discovery Gate –Additional SciFinder seat –Nature publication suite

ACS Chicago 2007 Take home message Librarians and faculty as partners –Librarians educate faculty as to publishing realities –Faculty define pedagogical/research goals Explore alternatives –iTunes model

ACS Chicago 2007 Acknowledgment Diane Graves – Coates Library director Chemistry faculty – Nancy Mills, Bill Kurtin, Michelle Bushey, Chris Pursell, Bert Chandler, John Spence, Adam Urbach, Laura Hunsicker-Wang, Jessica Hollenbeck All of the other usual suspects