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The Disconnection Between Use of Scientific Journals and Their Price [NWB'2016 poster]

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posted on 2016-11-23, 08:40 authored by Kim HolmbergKim Holmberg, Sarah Bowman, Timothy D. Bowman
In 2015, on behalf of Finnish universities, universities of applied sciences, and other research institutions, the FinElib consortium negotiated the contracts of almost 80,000 scientific journals, with subscription costs of 19.2 million euros. On average the member organizations of the consortium decreased their sub-scriptions by 8%, while at the same time the cost for subscriptions increased by about 1 million euros. The cost for scientific literature has risen to a level that threatens the availability of scientific literature in Finland. To this background this research set out to map the usage of scientific journals at the University of Turku and to investigate how usage and quality of the journals meet with the listed price of the journals. Using download statistics, citation counts (from WoS), and a survey, we mapped the usage of journals, while both SJR and SNIP were used to assess the perceived quality of the journals. Annual subscription prices of the journals were retrieved from the publishers’ websites. The results demonstrate how usage is completely disconnected from the price of the journal (figure 1). In addition, taking into account usage, quality, and price, we ranked the journals as per their value for money.

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