Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Keynote address: Involving the customer in library planning and decision making
- 3 Denmark's Electronic Research Library: evaluation of services through user surveys and usability tests
- 4 Beyond the guidelines: assessment of the usability and accessibility of distributed services from the users’ perspective
- 5 Online services versus online chaos: evaluating online services in a Greek academic library
- 6 The Hellenic Academic Libraries Consortium (HEAL-Link) and its effect on library services in Greece: the case of Aristotle University library system
- 7 Information seeking in large-scale resource discovery environments: users and union catalogues
- 8 A ‘joined-up’ electronic journal service: user attitudes and behaviour
- 9 Climbing the ladders and sidestepping the snakes: achieving accessibility through a co-ordinated and strategic approach
- 10 The impact of library and information services on health professionals’ ability to locate information for patient care
- 11 We know we are making a difference but can we prove it? Impact measurement in a higher education library
- 12 Proving our worth? Measuring the impact of the public library service in the UK
- 13 Outcomes and impacts, dollars and sense: are libraries measuring up?
- 14 Longitude II: assessing the value and impact of library services over time
- 15 The use of electronic journals in academic libraries in Castilla y León
- 16 The integration of library activities in the academic world: a practitioner's view
- 17 Monitoring PULMAN's Oeiras Manifesto Action Plan
- 18 Enabling the library in university systems: trial and evaluation in the use of library services away from the library
- 19 Towards an integrated theory of digital library success from the users’ perspective
- 20 The role of digital libraries in helping students attend to source information
- 21 A DiVA for every audience: lessons learned from the evaluation of an online digital video library
- 22 Usability evaluation of Ebrary and OverDrive e-book online systems
- 23 Tearing down the walls: demand for e-books in an academic library
- Index
15 - The use of electronic journals in academic libraries in Castilla y León
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 June 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Keynote address: Involving the customer in library planning and decision making
- 3 Denmark's Electronic Research Library: evaluation of services through user surveys and usability tests
- 4 Beyond the guidelines: assessment of the usability and accessibility of distributed services from the users’ perspective
- 5 Online services versus online chaos: evaluating online services in a Greek academic library
- 6 The Hellenic Academic Libraries Consortium (HEAL-Link) and its effect on library services in Greece: the case of Aristotle University library system
- 7 Information seeking in large-scale resource discovery environments: users and union catalogues
- 8 A ‘joined-up’ electronic journal service: user attitudes and behaviour
- 9 Climbing the ladders and sidestepping the snakes: achieving accessibility through a co-ordinated and strategic approach
- 10 The impact of library and information services on health professionals’ ability to locate information for patient care
- 11 We know we are making a difference but can we prove it? Impact measurement in a higher education library
- 12 Proving our worth? Measuring the impact of the public library service in the UK
- 13 Outcomes and impacts, dollars and sense: are libraries measuring up?
- 14 Longitude II: assessing the value and impact of library services over time
- 15 The use of electronic journals in academic libraries in Castilla y León
- 16 The integration of library activities in the academic world: a practitioner's view
- 17 Monitoring PULMAN's Oeiras Manifesto Action Plan
- 18 Enabling the library in university systems: trial and evaluation in the use of library services away from the library
- 19 Towards an integrated theory of digital library success from the users’ perspective
- 20 The role of digital libraries in helping students attend to source information
- 21 A DiVA for every audience: lessons learned from the evaluation of an online digital video library
- 22 Usability evaluation of Ebrary and OverDrive e-book online systems
- 23 Tearing down the walls: demand for e-books in an academic library
- Index
Summary
Introduction
This paper constitutes an initial approach to surveying the use of electronic journals in the state universities of the Spanish Autonomous Region of Castilla y León (the universities of Burgos, León, Salamanca and Valladolid). It is based on the samples provided by the smallest and most recently established universities, Burgos (UBU) and León (ULE).
The work focused on the use made by these two university communities of the journals included in the Emerald, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink and Wiley InterScience packages during the first few years of their joint subscription, between 2002 and 2004.
The literature on this topic has recently been revised and consolidated by Tenopir (2003) and in the papers of the seminar that the Ingenta Institute (2002) devoted to the subject of joint purchases and the extent to which they were worthwhile.
In the early days of the transition from paper to digital formats, consortial purchase served to expand collections in a way that suited publishers’ interest in generating a fresh demand for their products. They did this by offering in an electronic form, at marginal cost, material that in principle would not have been acquired for printed collections. The journal packages considered were obtained by the Castilla y León consortium (BUCLE) following the pattern of what has been termed a ‘big deal’. Such an arrangement was especially aimed at consortia, who were offered a spectacular increase in the accessibility of scientific information, breaking away from the former tendency towards continual cutbacks in library periodical collections. This approach has been the subject of debate (Frazier, 2001a, b; Rowse, 2003; Sanville, 2001). The economies of scale represented by consortia are very well known and are borne out by the constant growth in the number of such arrangements.
The financial benefits of joint acquisition of journals and the spread of their use in large collections set up on the basis of big deals have been the topic of a number of studies. These give a framework of reference for the current work, particularly the works by Sanville (2001) and Urbano et al. (2004). It is in this context that the employment of usage statistics for electronic resources should be viewed, as also should be any evaluations of the return on investment and details of user satisfaction.
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