Databases are the abstract/index finding tools to discover what has been published in an area of research. Cancellations in this format were held to a minimum. The databases on the planned cancellation list have: high cost per use, very low use, and/or have a large overlap with a database that is not being canceled.

Appalachian will continue to have acccess to back issues of individual journals (published before 2012-2013) that are part of databases packaged listed below when we have purchased the content (rather than leased it).

Planned Database Cancellations
ABELL: Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Abstracts in Social Gerontology
Academic Search Complete (will remain available via NC Live*)
Agricola
Alternative Press Index
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Business Source Complete (now available via NC Live*
CollegeSource
Ebsco Integrated Search
Environment Complete (now available via NC Live*
Left Index
Leisuretourism.com
Musicalamerica.com
Opposing Viewpoints Reference Center
Oral History Online
Project Euclid
RIPM: Retro Index to Music Periodicals
RISM: Series A/II Music Manuscripts after 1600

* NC LIVE [10] is North Carolina's statewide online library service. Founded in 1997, membership includes the NC Community Colleges, the NC Independent Colleges and Universities, the NC Public Libraries, the University of North Carolina System, and the State Library of North Carolina. Resources supplied by NC Live allow the Library to defer costs and to use funds for other information resources.

Comments and feedback

We encourage comments from faculty, staff, and students on these planned reductions. Please contact your University Librarian Mary Reichel, (reichelml@appstate.edu) [11], your Collection Management liaison [12] or John Abbott, Coordinator of Collection Management (abbottJP@appstate.edu [13]).