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Beyond use statistics: Journal collections that meet faculty needs

Beyond use statistics: Journal collections that meet faculty needs. Linda Day and Alan Gale Information Resources & Collections Unit University of Guelph Library. Why evaluate journal collections?. Journals are fundamentally important to faculty both for research and teaching.

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Beyond use statistics: Journal collections that meet faculty needs

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  1. Beyond use statistics: Journal collections that meet faculty needs Linda Day and Alan Gale Information Resources & Collections Unit University of Guelph Library

  2. Why evaluate journal collections? • Journals are fundamentally important to faculty both for research and teaching. • University libraries spend a substantial part of their acquisitions budget on journals • Universities are accountable for the quality of their expenditure decisions

  3. University of Guelph • 17,600 FTE undergraduates, 2300 FTE graduate students, ca. 850 faculty (current) • Information resources budget: $6,124,351 (2006/2007) • Journal spend: $3,471,502 (2006/2007) • Participant in OCUL and CRKN deals • ca. 34,000 journals available (this includes titles in aggregated databases and therefore duplicates of some titles) (2006/2007)

  4. Study methodology • Used Journal Citation Reports (JCR) database from Thomson Reuters • Established lists of most frequently cited journals in Chemistry, Engineering, Math & Stats, and Physics • Exported data to Excel • Determined Guelph access: online, print, etc. • Created the necessary charts and tables

  5. Summary data for chemistry journals

  6. Backfile data for Chemistry journals

  7. Discussion / Conclusions • Guelph has ‘good’ coverage of the journal literature in the subject areas reviewed • Analytical approach is simple. • Results can be portrayed clearly. • Possible improvements to the data analysis process. • Faculty (dis)satisfaction with our journal collection (access) from LibQual 2007

  8. We welcome questions and comments!Alan Galeagale@uoguelph.caLinda Daylday@uoguelph.ca

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