Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Print & Electronic Library Collections of Scholarly Journals” report to their offering.
“The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Print & Electronic Library Collections of Scholarly Journals” The report is based on a representative survey of more than 550 higher education faculty in the United States and Canada.
Faculty present their opinions on preferences for print or paper journal formats, degree of problems with archival access, use of url-catalog links to journals, extent to which their college library journal collection satisfies their scholarly needs, and frequency of database access and library visits. Data is broken out by 12 criteria including age, academic field or specialty, type of college, size of college, frequency of library use, and many other factors.
+ Canadian faculty were more likely than American faculty to think of the paper copies as a waste of time – nearly 45% thought so.
+ In general, age was highly inversely correlated with the tendency to think of paper copies as wasteful and redundant when online versions were available.
+ Only a third of community college faculty express support for increased spending on academic journals while about 64.3% of faculty in MA/Ph.D. granting colleges expressed such support.
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