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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 11:13:06 -0500

Press Release for International Survey of Research University Faculty:
Use of Academic Journals, ISBN 978-1-57440-433-3

This 67-page study presents data from a survey of 512 academics from
55 research universities in the USA, Canada, Australia, Ireland and
the United Kingdom.  The report gives its readers a good idea of how
scholars feel about the need for perpetual access to journal titles in
online formats, their preferences regarding print vs. online journal
formats, their need for new journal titles, the extent to which their
library collections satisfy their current needs and the degree to
which scholars find the materials that they need in their library’s
existing journal collection. The study also looks at the impact of
Google Scholar on scholarly journal information use.

Data in the report is broken out by more than 10 criteria including
but not limited to:  country of origin of faculty member (with
separate data for the USA, Canada, UK/Ireland and Australia), age and
gender of faculty member, academic field, size of university, academic
title or position, world university ranking, and many other useful
variables.

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

55.63% of faculty aged 60-years-old or over preferred retaining
journals in paper format even when an online version is available;
only 33.65% of faculty in the 31-years-old to 39-years-old age range
felt the same way.

Business and Economics faculty report the greatest use of Google
Scholar; reading journals on Google Scholar account for 41.03% of the
time they spend reading online journals.

78.96% of Canadian respondents were able to find the needed research
articles using their home library collection vs only 55.1% for
scholars from the UK and 65.56% for scholars from the USA.

Faculty from the following universities participated in the study:
Australian National University, Brown University, Carleton University,
Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University. Drexel University,
Emory University, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Griffith University, Imperial College London, McGill
University, Miami University, Monash University, Penn State -
University Park, Penn State College of Medicine, Pennsylvania State
University, Princeton University, Rice University, Rutgers University,
Saint Louis University, Staffordshire University, Swinburne University
of Technology, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin,
University of Michigan, University College Dublin, University
Nottingham, University of Alberta, University of Birmingham,
University of California at Davis, University of California Riverside,
University of California Santa Barbara, University of Chicago,
University of Connecticut, University of Idaho, University of Leeds,
University of Maryland, University of Maryland College Park,
University of Michigan, University of Nebraska at Omaha, University of
Nottingham University of South Florida, University of Strathclyde,
University of Technology Sydney, University of Toronto, University of
Utah, University of Western Australia, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, Virginia Commonwealth University, Washington State
University, Washington State University Tri-Cities, Western Michigan
University and Yale University.

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