A method out of the madness: OhioLINK's collaborative response to the serials crisis

Electronic Journal Usage Statistics in Practice

“…OhioLINK is a well-known example (Sanville, 2001) where rising usage statistics (easier to analyse in that case because services are mounted on central servers within Ohio rather than obtained from publishers' websites) have been strenuously marketed, at least in part to maintain and increase state funding where possible.…”

Scholarly Publishing

“…With the advent of online journals the traditional sales model has also changed -no longer is it a 'one subscription-one printed journal' model, but involves electronic licensing negotiations on site-wide access, state-wide access and even country-wide access to the publisher's entire online collection. 22 Such consortia deals are taking up increasing amounts of both publishers' and librarians' time, but the benefits to libraries are consistent reliable holdings and price increases being fixed at a certain level for a period of time. For publishers, the advantage in striking such a deal may be stabilising a certain level of sales from a particular organisation.…”

Van gedrukte naar elektronische tijdschriften: gevolgen voor publicatiemodellen en evaluatiemethoden

“…Het is verleidelijk om na te gaan hoeveel gebruik uit gaat naar deze voor de doelgroep nieuwe titels. Sanville (2001) 183 Gebruikersonderzoek zal moeten uitwijzen welk belang men hecht aan de nieuw beschikbaar gekomen tijdschriften. Sanville concludeert: "The results thus far do indicate that librarians should no longer presume to know exactly what patrons will need in the electronic world based solely upon past patron behaviors in the controlled print environment... Our users are selecting a much wider array of materials than can be anticipated, much lesspredefined."…”