Learning Resources

Articles and webinars about or by Unsub

Unsub webinar series

Unsub runs a webinar series, with the goal of bringing together Unsub users to learn from one another as well as for us to disseminate Unsub best practices.

We have a dedicated webinars page on the Unsub website. Find it at: https://unsub.org/webinars

Recordings of each webinar are available at our Vimeo page at: https://vimeo.com/channels/1768002

Other resources

Note that we also have some older Unsub talks on Vimeo as well. Find those at https://vimeo.com/unsub

Unsub has a press page with links to articles: https://unsub.org/press

A few articles have been published recently that mention Unsub. We know it can be interesting and useful to read and share these with others, so check them out:

• Taking a Big Bite Out of the Big Deal on Scholarly Kitchen by Lisa Hinchliffe

• This tool is saving universities millions of dollars in journal subscriptions in Science

• Unsub Gives Libraries Powerful Evidence to Walk Away from Big Deals on SPARC's blog

• Tools for Negotiation: Using Unsub to Assess Subscription Value, SPARC webinar with Heather Piwowar, Nathan Mealey (Wesleyan), Mark McBride (SUNY), and Katharine Macy (UIPUI)

• No More Big Deal? Picking and Choosing Titles for Use, NISO webinar (Unsub mentioned often) with Keith Webster (CMU), Evviva Weinraub Lajoie (State University of New York at Buffalo), and Curtis Brundy (Iowa State University)