Assessment of the Use of Big Deals Suscription in Spain in the transition to Open Access

Rodríguez-Bravo, Blanca and Fernández-Ramos, Andrés Assessment of the Use of Big Deals Suscription in Spain in the transition to Open Access., 2019 . In IFLA WLIC 2019, Athens. [Conference paper]

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he paper analyzes the evolution of the use of electronic scientific journals in the period between 2007 and 2018 by the academic communities of to the BUCLE Consortium (Spain). The time period of the study has been limited to allow the analysis from the moment of the consolidation of the use of journals in electronic format by the academic community, up to the paradigm shift stage that advocates open access to scientific contents. achieve the aforementioned objective, downloads of articles from scientific journals distributed in the universities of Burgos, León, Salamanca and Valladolid are an providers: Emerald, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink and Wiley. taking into account its limitations regarding the number of universities analyzed and the number of distributors included, we estimate that the time of big deals, with their strengths a not yet finished. his work is made available The paper analyzes the evolution of the use of electronic scientific journals in the period between the public universities of Castille and Leon attached to the BUCLE Consortium (Spain). The time period of the study has been limited to allow the analysis from the moment of the consolidation of the use of journals in electronic format by the academic unity, up to the paradigm shift stage that advocates open access to scientific contents.To achieve the aforementioned objective, downloads of articles from scientific journals distributed in the analyzed by four broad-spectrum Based on the results of this study, and taking into account its limitations regarding the number of universities analyzed and the number of stimate that the time of big deals, with their strengths and weaknesses, has not yet finished.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: Big Deals; E-journals; university libraries; usage
Subjects: H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HN. e-journals.
J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JA. Acquisitions.
J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JB. Serials management.
Depositing user: Dr. Andrés Fernández-Ramos
Date deposited: 31 Mar 2020 07:57
Last modified: 31 Mar 2020 07:57
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/39422

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