[ALCTS-acqnet] Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of Academic Library Data Set Acquisitions Practices, ISBN 978-1-57440-595-8

Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of Academic Library Data
Set Acquisitions Practices, ISBN 978-1-57440-595-8

The study looks closely at how 42 libraries, mostly from research universities
or other research-oriented institutions, seek out and purchase data sets for
the general library collection and for use by particular academic departments.
The 80-page study helps its readers to answer questions such as:  how much do
libraries spend on data acquisitions?  How much do they plan to spend in the
future?  How do they decide which data acquisition requests to fund and which
not?  Do they have a data librarian?  Which academic fields use the most data
and make the most requests of the library?  What percentage of requests are
funded?  When libraries and academic departments share costs of data
acquisitions what is the split in costs?  To what extent can data requests be
met by existing collections of open access data sources that academic
researchers may not be initially aware of?  How do negotiations to purchase or
license data differ from negotiations for other forms of content?

The data in the report is broken out by many variables including size and type
of college, tuition levels, enrollment levels and other variables.  Data is
broken out separately for R1 and R2 universities, for graduate professional
schools, as well as for other types of institutions.  The study includes data
for 14 RI and 7 R2 institutions, as well as for many graduate professional
schools.  Some participants include Auburn, MIT, Claremont Colleges,
Princeton, the University of Toronto, Georgetown, USC and the University of
Calgary, among others.

Just a few of the report’s main findings are that:

52% of libraries sampled paid for data acquisitions with library funds.

42.86% of respondents indicated they experienced or expected to experience
significant or strong demand for data set acquisitions in social sciences.

Libraries serving private colleges granted and fully funded more than 40% of
the data acquisition requests received by the library.
For a table of contents, complete list of participants, questionnaire and an
excerpt visit the product page for this report at:
https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=570


James Moses, Research Director
Primary Research Group Inc.
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New York, New York  10025
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jmoses_at_primaryresearch.com