Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of Academic & Research
Library Plans for Ala Carte Purchases of Scholarly Journal Articles, ISBN 978-
157440-655-9
The study presents data from 27 academic and research libraries about how they
obtain journal articles when they lack a subscription to the needed
publication, and purchase articles through inter-library loan, direct from
publisher websites, through ala carte services or rights clearing agencies.
The study also looks at how these libraries satisfy some of their demand
through free or open access services such as Research Gate, Google Scholar,
digital repositories and other services.
The report gives detailed data on spending on ala carte journal articles for
2019-20 and projected for 2020-21 and gives similar data for spending on
Copyright Clearance Center, downloads direct from publisher websites, as well
as spending trends for on interlibrary loan services. Survey participants
also provide data on their use of a range of free and open access services and
give advice to their peers on general strategies for ala carte purchasing.
Data in the report is broken out for academic and other research libraries, by
size and enrollment level of educational institution, and by other useful
variables.
Just of few of this 58-page report’s many findings are that:
Nearly 56% of organizations surveyed plan to increase their spending on
scholarly journal articles ala carte in the absence of subscriptions
Traditional alternatives to subscriptions such as Google Scholar, digital
repositories and inter-library loan satisfy about 75% of demand for scholarly
journal articles in the absence of subscriptions but a lower percentage for
the most research oriented institutions.
Annual mean spending on articles downloaded from publisher websites was more
than $6,000.
For a table of contents, list of participating institutions, the questionnaire
and an excerpt – view the product page for this report at:
https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=629
View further details at www.PrimaryResearch.com.
Received on Wed Oct 21 2020 - 11:53:26 EDT