Judging big deals—take two

A follow-up to an earlier article published in this same journal in 2013, this article repeats an analysis of five Big Deal journal packages to which Hofstra University's Axinn Library subscribes. Improvements over the last study include more years of data, the removal of open access and archival content from the calculations, and a subject analysis. Results confirm the original findings that four of the Big Deals are good deals, but expand on...