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Survey of Scholarly Journal Licensing & Acquisition Practices, 2012 Edition
Primary Research Group, Jan 2012, Pages: 106
This 106-page report examines the scholarly journal licensing and acquisition practices of academic and special libraries, highlighting trends in journal subscriptions, publishers' pricing policies, and library spending on both print and online access journals. Based on a survey of 47 libraries from the United States and abroad, the report details library budgets for scholarly journals over the past two years as well as projections through 2013 while exploring the library's relationship and satisfaction with various subscription agents, including Ebsco, Harrasowitz, and Swets, among others. How has the open access movement affected journal prices and how willing have libraries been to embrace it? How many subscriptions have libraries cancelled over the past year and how many new ones have they added? What role do consortia play in journal purchasing and how do they affect journal acquisition policies?
The sample represents a broad range of institutions, with academic libraries from all levels of higher education including community colleges, 4-year colleges, and research universities. Data is broken out by country, type of library, and 2011-12 spending on journals.
Just a few of the many findings from this report are:
- Libraries in the sample currently subscribe to a mean of 2,356 individual journals that require yearly or monthly subscription fees
- 43.92% of library spending on scholarly journals is accounted for by deals negotiated through consortia
- In the last three years, 80.64% of libraries have experienced significant price increases for journals published by Oxford University Press
- In 2011-12, open access journals will account for a mean of 8.62% of library journal subscriptions
- Over the past five years, academic libraries have decreased onsite shelf space for scholarly journals by a mean of 8.8%
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