Posts Tagged ‘serials’

Can the library provide greater access to my articles?

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

If you would like to provide greater access to the articles you have written for scholarly publishers, then you can check the database below to see if the publisher will allow the library (or other organizations) to provide open access to your articles.  Research has shown strong correlations between open access and higher citation rates.  Most scholarly publishers allow their authors to post versions of articles to websites such as Peak Digital.  For example, the IEEE and the American Institute of Physics allow authors to archive the publisher’s version/PDF.  The publisher Elsevier will allow you to archive your post-print (final draft post-refereed version).

Please use the Sherpa/Romeo database of journal and publisher copyright policies.

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If you haven’t published your article yet, then you could consider publishing your article in a completely open access journal. This will give everyone in the world a chance to view your scholarly work without needing a subscription to the content.  Please let us know if you have any other questions concerning open access resources.

Joe

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How much does the library spend on books and journals?

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

As of 2010, we have a materials budget of $5,355,230.  Of that, $1.4 Million is used to purchase print serials and $2.1 Million goes to web-based serial sources.  We will buy $1.6 Million worth of print books and ebooks this year.  The rest of the materials budget is used for other items.

How does this compare to other doctoral granting universities?  We have recent data for comparison in the 2007 ACRL Academic Library Trends and Statistics series of books.  In 2007, our materials budget was $4,483,000.  Compared to some other universities, we are in the pretty good shape.  For example:

  • Lehigh University $4,301,000
  • Villanova $4,140,000
  • College of William and Mary $4,020,000
  • University of Wyoming $3,390,000
  • Brandeis University $3,272,000
  • Depaul University $2,701,000
  • University of Colorado at Denver $2,491,000
  • University of Dayton $1,775,000

If you would like to recommend a purchase, let us know.

Joe

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What is the size of the collection?

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

We have over 1,122,000 books and over 250,000 bound journal volumes in the collection for a total of 1,373,533 volumes.  If we include government documents, the total number of print volumes grows to 2,224,569.  We also have over 1,100,000 non-print items such as microfiche and CD-ROMs, so the grand total for the collection is 3,371,230 items.

We also have access to over 31,300 current serial titles.

This information was reported in the 2008-09 Profiles document.

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Aren’t all of your journals in full-text online?

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Finding full text online

You can search from our homepage to find out if we have online full-text of a particular journal.  Put the name of the database in the Find Books and More search box on the library’s homepage, library.du.edu.  The entry marked as [electronic resource] in your results list will show you the database(s) that contain that journal full-text and the years of coverage available.  Click on the year range to the right of the database name to access the database containing that journal.

Learn more about finding full-text articles on our Research Guide  Article Linker: Getting to Online Full Text.

Why aren’t all articles available in full-text?

Most, but not all, of our journals are available full-text online.  Access is negotiated with publishers and by database vendors, and not all are willing to participate in providing electronic access. In some cases the cost of online access in prohibitive for us. The library must decide how to best provide access to critical materials, given the constraints of cost, equipment, and use.

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