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Academic Library Buying Patterns: Shifting Budgets and More e-Resources
Richard W. ClementDean of Libraries
Utah State University
The View from the Top
Collections comprise more than half of the budget
The other major component is personnel
Operating costs are a small portion
At Utah State University Libraries
Almost all our discretionary money goes into collections
Collections Before the current budget crisis, collection
budgets have continued to grow, but not at the rate of inflation
Through the current crisis, our e-resources have been protected, and additional funding at 9% has been provided to compensate for inflation
Some traditional collection funds have been lost
Scholarly monographs have taken the brunt of cuts
Collection Priorities1. Protect E-journals (large packages) / cancel
print journals
2. Protect full-text databases / cancel indices
3. Protect and adjust Approval Plans to favor e-books
4. Expand patron-driven selection
5. Concentrate on acquisition of primary source materials and digitize them
6. Concentrate on developing and facilitating Open Access publications across the institution
The Future of the Scholarly Monograph
The scholarly journal has gone electronic
Is the future of the scholarly monograph electronic?
Anecdotal evidence suggests that scholars in the Humanities are not ready to adopt an electronic monograph
But hard data on usage suggests otherwise …
Printed Book Usage Traditionally 20% of a collection has
supported 80% of the circulation
Snapshot of data (OhioLink: 88 libraries comprising over 48 million books) in 2007 indicates that 12.9% of collection supported 80% of circulation from the date of joining OhioLink to 2007
In one year from Spring 2007 to Spring 2008, 6.5% of collection supported 80% of the circulation
With thanks to Celeste Feather of OhioLink for permission to use this study
Ebook Packages Under Review
Springer – All Subject Collections, 2005-2009
Oxford Scholarship Online – First 4 subject collections on market, mostly 2001-2009
Tracked usage over two fiscal years, FY 08 and FY 09 (July to June)
What Does Ebook Usage Tell Us?80% of use in FY 08 came from 22% of the titles (1 year)
80% of use in FY 08 and FY09 came from 36% of the titles (2 years)
Springer Subject Collections 2005 - June, 2009F08 and F09 Chapter DLs
Titles in Collection in F08 and F09
% of Titles Used in F08
and F09
Avg. DL per Title Used in F08 and F09
Architecture and Design 11,285 86 95% 138Behavioral Science 48,587 163 90% 331Biomedical and Life Sciences 127,188 1,471 92% 94Business and Economics 68,450 982 87% 80Chemistry and Materials Science 89,293 709 91% 138Computer Science 90,179 3,308 79% 35Earth and Environmental Science 52,765 775 92% 74Engineering 133,642 1,854 87% 83Humanities, Social Science and Law 150,286 1,163 90% 144Mathematics and Statistics 127,293 1,461 89% 98Medicine 216,448 1,483 93% 158Physics and Astronomy 80,916 1,074 91% 82Professional and Applied Computing 52,874 493 91% 118Totals 1,249,206 15,022 88% 95
CIC data show 87% title use for Springer as well
What Does Ebook Usage Tell Us?80% of use in FY 08 came from 33% of the titles (1 year)
80% of use in FY 08 and FY09 came from 38% of the titles (2 years)
Oxford Scholarship Online Subject CollectionsF08 and F09 Chapter DLs
Titles in Collection in F08 and F09
% of Titles Used in F08
and F09
Avg. DL per Title Used in F08 and F09
Economics and Finance 23885 305 90% 87Philosophy 42283 620 91% 75Political Science 29300 357 92% 89Religion 45413 496 88% 105Totals 140881 1778 90% 88
Adding projected FY10 data: 80% of use will come from 40% of titles (3 years)
FY09 stats for OUP Music, Classics, History, Literature all 76% to 86% of titles used
Implications Libraries can achieve administrative and cost
efficiencies by acquiring complete packages of high interest material rather than using title by title selection
Usage from a stable population of titles is expanding; using higher % of ebook titles available each year indicates greater acceptance
Researcher behavior is changing dramatically with mass arrival of ebooks
The View from the Top
For journals, electronic only
For databases, full-text, with very few exceptions
Approval plans moved to ebooks
For scholarly monographs, electronic highly favored, particularly as part of large heavily discounted packages
Budget priorities for collections at Utah State
