Are Costly Journals More Valuable?

Galyani Moghaddam, Golnessa Are Costly Journals More Valuable? Iranian Journal of Library and Information Science, 2007, vol. 10, n. 39. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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This article analyzes the most used scholarly electronic journals at a multi-disciplinary research institute in India, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). Analysis of the top thirty journals at IISc shows that two-thirds of these journals belong to non-profit/society publishers and one-third to for-profit/commercial publishers. There is a remarkable difference between the prices that for-profit/commercial publishers charge libraries for scholarly journals and the prices that non-profit/society publishers and university presses charge. This price difference does not appear to reflect a difference in quality as measured by the number of recorded citations to a journal/impact factor and use of journal.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Scholarly Journals, Journal Price, Usage Study, Indian Institute of Science, India
Subjects: J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JB. Serials management.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HN. e-journals.
C. Users, literacy and reading. > CB. User studies.
Depositing user: Golnessa Galyani Moghaddam
Date deposited: 23 Aug 2007
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:09
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/10226

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