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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 09:54:21 -0400

Primary Research Group has published the Survey of Academic Library
Database Licensing Practices, 2016-17 Edition, ISBN 978-157440-399-2

This international study presents data from 29 colleges and
universities about their database licensing practices, including
spending data on eBooks, databases, and eJournals.  The report looks
closely at trends in how staff time is consumed on issues such as
invoice-checking, contract examination, training patrons in database
use and other tasks.  In addition we probe librarian feelings on
additions to or subtractions from their current database portfolio and
their level of interest in novel database such as those of syllabi,
open access course materials, textbooks, classroom video and blogs.

The report looks at the use of free information resources such as
Google Scholar, and tracks librarian assessment of the rate of price
increases for online information.
The study also probes opinions about the use of file sharing sites
that make copyright publications available at no charge without the
permission of the publishers.

The study also looks at disputes with vendors providing data on the
use of lawyers in contract disputes and the frequency of publisher
audits and other behavior designed to check contract violations.

Data is broken out by many variables such as college type, enrollment,
tuition level and other factors.

Some of the survey participants are: Johns Hopkins University Welch
Medical Library, the Australian National University, the University of
Bath, Vanderbilt University, Saskatchewan Polytechnic, University at
Buffalo and UCONN Health, among others.

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

•    8.52% of the time spent in database research by librarians
sampled was spent on Google Scholar.
•    Public colleges in the sample spent a mean of $82,600 on eBook
licenses in the past year.
•    Laptops accounted for a mean of 42% of database access for the
libraries sampled, fixed workstations for 40.33%.
•    Research university libraries in the sample spent an average of
more than 2,000 staff hours per year reviewing and paying invoices
from database vendors.

For a table of contents, excerpt, the questionnaire and list of
participants, view the product page for this report at:
http://www.primaryresearch.com/view_product.php?report_id=604

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