It would be nice in the manuscript to comment on Penn's standing as a research university and Penn Libraries' expenditures.

For example,

• how much does Penn spend on subscription access to scholarly articles per year?
• how many articles does Penn subscribe to... what's the average cost per article?
• what's the average cost per authorized use at Penn?
• how does Penn's library expenditures compare to other libraries?

I found some info in the Penn Libraries Facts 2015, such as:

Serials have made the transition to digital and are licensed in bundles that, in the aggregate, consume about 65% of annual information expenditure

@Publicus any chance you could find out some of this information... preferably for 2017. I imagine some of it is difficult to calculate, so information that is immediately available is preferred due to time constraints. My main question is how much Penn spends on access to scholarly literature per year. Second, would probably be how articles are accessed via Penn's subscriptions per year.