What to Withdraw? Print Collection Management in the Wake of Digitization

For scholarly journals, the academic community is today in the midst of a major format transition away from print and toward an electronic-only future. Ithaka S+R's regular Faculty Survey, most recently conducted in the fall of 2009, indicates that faculty members have grown increasingly comfortable with relying on local journal collections in electronic formats. For those journals where print no longer serves an important access role, preservation is the format's principal remaining role. Ithaka S+R's What to Withdraw study therefore focuses closely on the preservation considerations associated with print.