A Cost-Per-Use Method for Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Serials: A Detailed Discussion of Methodology

Milne, Dorothy; Tiffany, Bill

doi:10.1080/00987913.1991.10763999

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“…10 "High" cost per use is an estimated threshold, or tip ping point, at which ownership becomes much more expensive than access, whereas "low" use is a somewhat arbi trary range (usually zero to five). In ac tual practice, this kind of analysis is more varied and looser than the dual frame work.…”

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Restructuring Serials Management to Generate New Resources and Services—With Commentaries on Restructurings at Three Institutions

Schwartz

1998

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Restructuring serials management along access-versus-ownership lines does not solve the serials crisis, but it does alleviate inflationary pressures and has other significant outcomes. The main economic outcome is the cancellation of low-use, high-cost-per-use titles to create a large pool of savings for reinvestment in new resources and services. The main service outcome is a fully subsidized, unmediated document delivery system—for a fraction of the cost savings. The main political outcome is a resolution of the “tragedy of the commons” phenomenon, which tends to dominate library–faculty relations based on conventional serials management.

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Restructuring Serials Management to Generate New Resources and Services—With Commentaries on Restructurings at Three Institutions

Schwartz

1998

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“…In principle, there would be no need to divide the periodicals budget by subject or department (in any case, this does not always make sense because so many periodicals cross disciplines). The nearest approach in the literature to this kind of data collection is in Milne and Tiffany (1991).…”

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Evaluation of academic libraries: with special reference to the Copenhagen Business School Library

Cotta-Schønberg¹,

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1994

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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Past studies of performance indicators for libraries have concentrated on theoreti cal considerations at the expense of prac tical measures applicable without undue effort in normal working situations. Many indicators advocated are highly valid but are too expensive in relation to their util ity. Libraries in some countries have tried to agree a total set of indicators before starting to apply any of them, while many individual libraries have instituted their own measures, which are unlikely to be totally consistent with those used by other libraries. A pilot project, conducted at the Copenhagen Business School Library, Denmark (CBS) aimed to approach the matter empirically, starting with a set of measures, testing them in one or more libraries, and then seeking agreement between libraries of the same type, in order to establish a standard set of mea sures that may be applied throughout the country. The pilot evaluation tested most of the proposed indicators satisfactorily; indicated those that were most promising; and confirmed many of the suspected strengths and weaknesses of the CBS Library, but putting them on a firmer quantitative footing. The study also pro duced unexpected findings and pointed to remedial action needing to be taken at once. A full report of the evaluation has been issued separately in Danish and English versions (Copenhagen Business School Library, 1992).

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A Cost-Per-Use Method for Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Serials: A Detailed Discussion of Methodology

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Restructuring Serials Management to Generate New Resources and Services—With Commentaries on Restructurings at Three Institutions

Restructuring Serials Management to Generate New Resources and Services—With Commentaries on Restructurings at Three Institutions

Evaluation of academic libraries: with special reference to the Copenhagen Business School Library

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