From: adam hodgkin <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 12:39:41 +0200

Dear Colleagues:

Can anybody point me to some published research on the breakdown of
funds for the acquisition of periodicals (and serials) and books in
university and college libraries.

I would be interested to have some definite and reliable data on the
relative balance between these two types of expenditure over the last
5, 10, 20 or 30 years. I would be interested in the trends by global
total, by major regions or countries, or even for specific
universities. The global trend would be particularly interesting but I
guess it may be hard to discern.

I have not been very successful at trying to pinpoint such data
sources from Google  -- but I am sure some members of the community
know exactly where such data can be found.

Thanks

adam

Adam Hodgkin