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Uses of Necessity or Uses of Convenience? What Usage Statistics Reveal and Conceal About Electronic Serials
- Source :
- Medeiros, Norm . Uses of Necessity or Uses of Convenience? What Usage Statistics Reveal and Conceal About Electronic Serials., 2007 In: Usage Statistics of E-Serials. Haworth Press, pp. 233-243. [Book chapter]
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- Haworth Press, 2007.
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Abstract
- Electronic serials (e-serials) have had a profound effect on technical and collection services in most academic libraries. E-serials circumvent traditional serials control practices; they force libraries to rely on publishers and third parties for archiving, and most pertinent to this volume, they relocate from libraries to e-serials providers the responsibility for measuring use. The disaggregation of “big deals” makes the collection and analysis of usage statistics especially important activities. Often uses of e-serials merely meet professorial requirements, rather than satisfy an information need, with no ability for libraries to distinguish between the two. Furthermore, the cost-per-use calculation performed by libraries to determine whether subscription or article-on-demand purchasing is the more fiscally-prudent option is fraught with error. A new means of calculating these figures must be developed.
- Subjects :
- BA. Use and impact of information.
HN. e-journals.
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- E-LIS (Eprints in Library & Information Science)
- Journal :
- Medeiros, Norm . Uses of Necessity or Uses of Convenience? What Usage Statistics Reveal and Conceal About Electronic Serials., 2007 In: Usage Statistics of E-Serials. Haworth Press, pp. 233-243. [Book chapter]
- Publication Type :
- Book
- Accession number :
- edseli.11026
- Document Type :
- Book chapter