Looking for a Link : Comparing Faculty Citations Pre and Post Big Deals

Taylor, Donald Looking for a Link : Comparing Faculty Citations Pre and Post Big Deals. Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship, 2007, vol. 8, n. 1. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]

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English abstract

Big Deals expand an institution’s access to scholarly literature, with usage statistics showing that previously unavailable journals receive significant usage. To determine if faculty use these new e-journals in their research, the Simon Fraser University (SFU) Library analyzed SFU citation data to journals from selected Big Deals for two years prior to signing a major Big Deal (1993 and 1998) and for two consecutive years following the Big Deal (2004 and 2005). Pre Big Deal, the percentage of citations to journals that are part of Big Deals but were previously not subscribed to was an average of 2.6%. Post Big Deal this increased to an average of 6.1%.

Item type:	Journal article (Unpaginated)
Keywords:	Big deals, Electronic journals, Citation analysis,
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information > BA. Use and impact of information. H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HN. e-journals. B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
Depositing user:	Donald Taylor
Date deposited:	27 Apr 2007
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:07
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/9412

References

1. Kenneth Frazier, “What’s the Big Deal,” Serials Librarian 48, no. 1/2 (2005): 49-59.

2. Mark Ware, “E-only Journals: Is it Time to Drop Print?” Learned Publishing 18, no. 3 (2005): 193-199.

3. David Kohl, “Doing Well by Doing Good,” Journal of Academic Librarianship 29, no. 4 (2003): 205-206.

4. Andrew Waller and Gwen Bird, “ ‘We Own It’: Dealing with ‘Perpetual Access’ in Big Deals,” Serials Librarian 50, no. 1/2 (2006): 179-196.

5. Loretta Ebert, “What’s the Big Deal? ‘Take 2’ or, How to Make it Work for You,” Serials Librarian 48, no. 1/2 (2005): 61-68.

6. Kimberly Parker and Kathleen Bauer, “E-Journals and Citation Patterns: Is it all Worth it?” Serials Librarian 44, no. 3-4 (2003): 209-213.

7. Ibid., 210-211.

8. David Nicholas, Paul Hungtington, Bill Russell, Anthony Watkinson, Hamid R. Jamali, Carol Tenopir, “The Big Deal Ten Years on,” Learned Publishing 18, no. 4 (2005): 251-257.

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