Big Deal cancellations are increasingly undertaken by academic librarians faced with rising subscription costs and shrinking collections budgets. While past research has focused on librarians' decision-making processes and communication strategies, this study aims to understand the perspectives and experiences of faculty and graduate students with Big Deal cancellations through interviews at three medium-sized Canadian institutions. It considers cancellations as a collaborative process of information exchange, rather than a top-down process. This study's findings can inform how and why cancellation projects can be undertaken with enhanced understandings of their lived realities of Big Deals and the current state of scholarly publishing. This study has been accepted by College and Research Libraries and will be published in July 2026.

翻译：面对订阅费用上涨与馆藏预算缩减，学术图书馆日益采取大宗交易取消措施。尽管既往研究多聚焦于图书馆员的决策过程与沟通策略，本研究旨在通过访谈加拿大三所中等规模机构的教师与研究生，深入理解他们对大宗交易取消的视角与体验。本研究将取消行为视为信息交换的协作过程，而非自上而下的行政指令。研究结果通过揭示用户对大宗交易的实际体验及学术出版现状的认知，为如何及为何开展取消项目提供了实践依据。本研究成果已被《高校与研究型图书馆》期刊录用，将于2026年7月正式发表。