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Perpetual Access Procedures & Codes
UMass policy for tracking and maintaining perpetual access is as follows (as of 10/24/18):
Cancellations of individual subscriptions: Do not set up PA. A cancelled publication is not deemed critical to support academic work at UMass.
Transferred or ceased individual subscription ejournals: Do not set up PA access EXCEPT for Springer, Wiley and Elsevier (Elsevier autoload maintains PA in SFX). Springer is set up for autoload but is not yet tested and deemed reliable for PA so continue maintaining manually. A Wiley autoload request has been sent to ExLibris.
Transferred or ceased ejournal package titles: Set up and maintain PA for Springer and Wiley only. Elsevier autoload maintains these titles in SFX. Other publishers are not reliably retaining PA access long-term (e.g. Sage, Cambridge), and there is an increasing volume of titles migrating between packages.
Perpetual access process