The evolution of the use of electronic scientific journals in the 2007-2018 period by the academic communities of the public universities of Castilla and Leon, members of the Bucle consortium, is studied. Downloads of articles distributed by four broad-spectrum providers are analyzed: Emerald, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, and Wiley. Unexpectedly, in spite of the new ways of accessing content, this analysis shows that the number of downloads in public universities in Castile and Leon has increased. However, it has been found that despite the growth, a few journals concentrate most of the downloads and that a large number of titles are not used. It has been verified that the universities with a higher number of staff and greater diversity of knowledge areas use a wider range of titles and thus obtain a higher benefit from their contracts. All of the above leads us to question the system of contracting big deals, i.e., bundles of hundreds of multidisciplinary journals and other resources. In a moment of change promoted by Plan S, we consider it more necessary than ever to understand the situation of the provision of serial scientific publications and to find the best strategy to have access to them.
Blanca Rodríguez-Bravo es profesora titular de universidad del Área de Biblioteconomía y Documentación de la Universidad de León, y docente en el área de la representación y organización de la información desde 1991. Su investigación se centra en este tema y en la evaluación de interfaces de catálogos automatizados, el uso de contenidos de revistas digitales distribuidos por los big deals y la rentabilidad de la inversión de las bibliotecas universitarias en paquetes de revistas. el período 2006-2011, que muestran una curva ascendente y una preferencia por ScienceDirect. Los científicos de las áreas de ciencias experimentales y de la salud son los usuarios que más descargas de artículos realizaron. El crecimiento de la producción científica es incuestionable y se confirma que los científicos más productivos pertenecen a las disciplinas en las que se efectúan más descargas de artículos de revistas. No se ha observado una correlación entre los títulos más consultados y los usados luego para publicar. Palabras claveBibliotecas universitarias, Consumo de información, Contenidos electrónicos, Impacto, Información electrónica, Productividad científica, Revistas electrónicas, ScienceDirect, Scopus, SpringerLink, Universidad de Vigo, Uso de información, Web of science, Wiley.Title: Impact of subscription to electronic journals collections on academic productivity at the University of Vigo AbstractThe aim of the study is to test a methodology to investigate the correlation between the models of electronic information usage and the scientific communication preferences reflected in two databases: Web of Science (WoS) from Thomson Reuters, and Scopus from Elsevier. The study is focused on the University of Vigo. Downloads of the articles distributed by ScienceDirect, SpringerLink and Wiley were analyzed at the University of Vigo (Spain) in the period 2006 to 2011. There is an ascending curve for the consumption of electronic scientific content and a preference for titles distributed by ScienceDirect. The study confirms that experimental and health sciences researchers are the most devoted users, to judge by the number of articles downloaded. Increase in scientific production was also analyzed by discipline. There was a direct correlation between the most productive disciplines and those in which higher numbers of journal articles were downloaded. Nevertheless, no direct correlation was observed between the titles preferred for scientific communication and the titles receiving greater use in the multidisciplinary platforms studied.
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