IngentaConnect Database Access & Spending

Author: Primary Research Group¹

Source: The Survey of Academic and Special Libraries 2001 Edition, 2001 , pp. 88-93(6)

Abstract:

The Survey of Academic & Special Libraries is based on detailed surveys of 20 law libraries, 23 corporate libraries, 22 hospital and healthcare libraries and 65 academic libraries in the USA & Canada. The report's more than 500 tables of data present an extraordinary statistical map of the purchasing policies and technology practices of academic & special libraries in North America. Among the issues covered are spending on and negotiating with major commercial online services, the use of web-based niche information suppliers, use of CD-ROM, traditional and electronic document delivery services, use of various search engines, and spending on books, cataloging systems, training, electronic and print journals and much more. Data is broken out by size and type of library with separate presentations for academic, medical, legal, corporate and government libraries. See the table of contents, list of tables and sample data for more details.

Section focuses on Database Access & Spending including the mean percentage of the libraries total database/digital publishing spending that is spent on major commercial online services, electronic document delivery services, CD-ROM subscriptions, web-accessed databases that are not commercial online services, direct lease from publishers for posting on the end user intranet, etc.

Keywords: database spending; digital publishing spending

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Primary Research Group, Inc.

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