Unsub is a data dashboard that helps libraries reassess the value of their big deal subscriptions. Using Unsub, libraries can forecast their spending and fulfillment over the next five years, modeling a variety of different subscription and cancellation scenarios.

Unsub’s data-driven forecast model is customized to each institution, using their unique access, citation, and authorship patterns. To generate a 360-degree picture of access and costs over time, Unsub accounts for the effect of open access, post-termination access, interlibrary loan, journal readership decay curves, and more.

Unsub currently supports the five biggest publishers with more coming soon.

For more information on this service, contact MCLS Group Purchasing at services@mcls.org or (800) 530-9019 ext 401.