Unsub is a dashboard that helps you reevaluate your big deal’s value and understand your cancellation options.

For the last few years we’ve supported a small set of very large publishers.

One of the most requested features has been support for more publishers.

As of today – right now – we support all publishers.

We heard you, and we’re super excited to get this in your hands. Here’s some important details:

• All publishers are supported. We no longer support specific publishers, but rather we support any publisher.
• A mix of publishers is supported. This was another oft requested feature, mostly related to aggregators, and actually naturally arose out of our change to support all publishers. Unsub dashboards no longer have logic filtering what titles are in your dashboard by publisher – so it’s just as easy for a dashboard to have titles from one publisher or 20 publishers.
• Title prices are now required. Supporting all publishers, it’s not feasible for us to collect and update titles prices for all of their titles. For existing Unsub packages created before today, we’ve incorporated the public prices we had (for the big 5 we supported: Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, SAGE) into your packages. For new packages moving forward, you’ll have to upload your own title prices. We’ve updated the documentation accordingly.
• APC report has moved from package to institution level. We have APC data for the big 5 publishers, but now that we’re moving to any publisher, we can no longer provide publisher specific APC reports. However, you can now get an APC report for your institution that includes an estimate of your APC spend for the big 5 publishers (Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, SAGE). See the APC Report documentation page for more.

But, we didn’t stop there. Here’s some additional features you can use today that we think you’ll enjoy:

• Packages now have Descriptions. When you login to Unsub you’ll see evidence of this change straight away. You can use this package attribute to include a lot of detail about your package to remind your future self and others of important details about your package. See the docs for more information.
• Package views now have an Edit Details tab. In this tab you can change the package name and description. See the docs for more information.
• Packages have an optional filter setup step. This could be used for a variety of use cases, but first and foremost can be used to get back to the state of your package before today’s changes. That is, we no longer filter by publisher. If you had a Wiley package before today you should have only seen titles published by Wiley in your dashboard. However, moving forward, we do not filter by publisher, so that same Wiley package may include some titles from other publishers that were in your COUNTER reports. You can use this new feature to limit the set of titles that appear in your dashboard. See the Upload journal filter documentation page to learn more.

Notes:

• During testing, we heard that aggregators may not provide a COUNTER 5 TR_J2 file. As we require a TR_J2 file if you choose COUNTER 5 in Unsub, we provide a fake TR_J2 file. Let us know if you run into any issues with this! See the docs page for more info.
• As we support more publishers, we’ll run into more edge cases. We’ve heard that some publishers only provide a COUNTER 5 TR_J1 file – and do not provide TR_J2, TR_J3, and TR_J4 files. We don’t currently support the COUNTER 5 TR_J1 file. Get in touch if this is something you need.
• There may be “growing pains” moving from support for 5 publishers to all publishers. For example, journal metadata that’s crucial to Unsub may not be complete for some journals. Please do get in touch if you run into any issues. We’ll be keeping an eye on things and will

If you are not a current Unsub subscriber and you’re interested to learn more schedule a demo or go ahead and purchase.

If you are a current Unsub subscriber, log in, kick the tires, and let us know what you think.

To learn more about all the new features head over to our documentation.

In an upcoming webinar (date to be announced soon) I’ll dive into all the new features and answer any questions.