Collections expenditures 2019-2020: about $3.6 or $3.7 million (about 31% of the total library budget and less than $200 per student)

Largest collection expenditures:

ScienceDirect journals -- Freedom Collection, about 2000 current journals (most but not all ScienceDirect journals)

Monographs: books, some video, some ebook    -- approx. $450,000  (but see next page for more on ebooks)

Wiley journals -- all Wiley--Blackwell journals

Springer Nature journals -- most but not quite all Springer journals.  Just a few Nature journals.

Sage journals -- almost all Sage journals

We do not subscribe to a "Big Deal" with Taylor & Francis, but we spend over $100,000 on various T&F journals.

EBSCO databases -- We subscribe to about 15-20 of these.  With some full text.

ProQuest databases -- These are mostly paid for by statewide NC Live service. With some full text.

Oxford journals -- We have all 350 of their current journals.

Use by AppState community -- Roughly 1 million subscription article downloads in 2019

-- Circulation of physical books continues to fall, to about 150,000 in 2017-2018

-- But availability and use of ebooks has increased dramatically

Also see Databases, APPsearch, Catalog, e-Journals, and other access points.  Or ask your librarian.

Some of the libraries' journal content is from JSTOR, ProQuest, and EBSCO.  These vendors give us access to many journals on a delayed basis.  We often use the term embargo.  A 12 month embargo means that we get full text access only after 12 months passes from original publication.  There are also often articles published under a label such as "Advance Access," for articles accepted and published but not assigned to an issue.  Those will often be delayed for additional time from publication date.  That is, a 12 month embargo might involve greater than a 12 month delay from publication in an issue.

We often have access to journals through more than one source.  See eJournals on library webpage (center in August 2021).  Also, we have a high-functioning system for accessing journal articles from other libraries, ILLiad.