The Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices, 2012 Edition
Primary Research Group, July 2012, Pages: 115
This 116-page report studies the database licensing practices of 60 academic, public, corporate, and law libraries from across the globe, representing more than a dozen countries and regions including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and continental Europe, as well as a handful of participants from developing countries. With more than 200 tables, the report covers issues such as the importance of mobile computing, the use of library consortia, the use of open access and electronic resources, and the indexing of blogs, wikis, and listservs. Statistics are given citing library content spending, overall licensing volume, renewal and cancellation rates, contract terms, content licensing pricing, and general library usage. How has database usage at the library changed over the past year? How do these libraries rate their most frequently used database vendors and what problems have they encountered? What subjects of database content are expected to benefit from an increase in spending? These questions and more are answered in this detailed study on the database licensing practices of a wide array of libraries.
This 165-page report explores the practices and habits of the distance learning programs of more than 50 higher education institutions in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Total annual revenue figures are given as well as percentage changes in revenue over the past two years and expected changes moving forward. The report examines the assessment efforts of these programs while providing statistics on tuition, enrollment, retention rates, and faculty compensation. Particular focus is given to emerging trends in marketing and advertising and overall spending in these areas. With over 400 tables, and data broken out by country, type of college, total student enrollment, private or public status, and number of courses offered, end users can gauge how their distance learning programs size up against a wide array of programs both big and small.
Just a few of the many findings from this report are:
- Enrollment in distance learning programs has increased by approximately 5.8 percent in the last year
- Public colleges made a mean of $1.8 million in total annual revenue for distance learning programs, while private colleges have made a mean of $6.6 million
- Just 13.33 percent of 4-year colleges in the sample make work study positions available to distance learning students, as compared to 76.47 percent of junior and community colleges
- Colleges in the United States sent out a mean of 149,817 pieces of mail in the past year to market distance learning programs
- 42.5 percent of distance learning programs in the sample will not advertise on Facebook in the next year
- Survey participants estimate that a mean of 42.07 percent of distance learning courses in their college are taught by adjunct faculty
- 21.74 percent of colleges in the sample offer some form of tuition reduction, rebate, or grant to more than half of the students taking distance learning courses
List of Tables
Survey Participants
The Questionnaire
Summary of Main Findings
Characteristics of the Sample
Chapter 1: Database Licensing Volume
Chapter 2: Renewals and Cancellations
Chapter 3: Mobile Computing
Chapter 4: Coverage of Blogs, Wikis, Listservs and Ezines
Chapter 5: Use of Consortiums
Chapter 6: Content License Pricing
Chapter 7: Disputes and Legal Expenditure
Chapter 8: Staff Time
Chapter 9: Contract Terms
Chapter 10: Usage Statistics
Chapter 11: Electronic Resources and Interlibrary Loan
Chapter 12: Use of Open Access Resources
Chapter 13: Use of Free Resources
Chapter 14: License Renewal Decision Making Process
- Abbott Laboratories
- Agnes Scott College
- AgResearch LTD
- Alberta AIM
- Alberta Innovates-Tech Futures
- Appalachian State University
- Aurora University
- Austin Public Library
- Australian National University Library
- Baker College
- Botswana Technology Centre
- Bradley Public Library District
- Broward College
- California State University, Long Beach
- Carvajal Foundation
- Catholic University of America
- East Baton Rouge Parish Library
- Ecolab Inc.
- Elon University
- Foley Hoag LLP
- Fundación Universitaria Colombo Internacional
- Hancock County Library System
- Harrison College
- HSE (Ireland)
- Institute of Physical Rehabilitation of Québec
- Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon
- IRT-Perundurai Medical College
- Istanbul Technical University
- Johns Hopkins University/Entrepreneurial Library Program/Excelsior College Library
- Johnson County Library
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
- L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library
- LAC Group at BP
- Library of Chinese Academic Science
- Library of Congress
- Marywood University
- Meadville Public Library
- National Agricultural Library
- National Technical University of Ecuador
- Otis College of Art and Design
- Pasadena Independent School District
- Pasadena Public Library
- Quincy University
- Red Deer College
- Sacramento Public Library
- Santa Cruz Public Libraries
- Sarita Kenedy East Law Library
- Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt
- Sharif University of Technology
- South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare
- State Library of Victoria
- State University of New York at Buffalo
- Stockton San Joaquin County Public Library
- Sultan Qaboos University
- Tampere University
- Technical University of Crete
- The New School
- University of Aberdeen
- University of Wyoming Libraries
- William Mitchell College of Law
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