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DOI: 10.15507/1991-9468.092.022.201803.426-440
World and National Trends in University Libraries Acquisition
Irina K. Razumova
Deputy Director for Science at National Electronic-Information Consortium (4 (5) Letnikovskaya St., Moscow 115114, Russia), Ph.D. (Phys.-Math.), ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0910-8010, Scopus ID: 7003619010, Researcher ID: B-4943-2009, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Alexander Yu. Kuznetsov
Executive Director at National Electronic-Information Consortium (4 (5) Letnikovskaya St., Moscow 115114, Russia), ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3820-2551, Scopus ID: 36866816400, Researcher ID: I-7486-2016, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Introduction. We investigated the problem of comparative analysis of the world and national trends of development of information support of the university research and education and position of Russia in the world academic community.
Materials and Methods. We analyzed international and national surveys with data processing methods. Materials comprise results of the latest survey of the Publishers Communication Group, initial data of annual surveys conducted by Russian National electronic information consortium and the data of the surveys conducted by the Ministry of education and science of the Russian Federation in 2016 and 2017.
Results. More than 90 % of world and Russian universities report of acquisition of scholarly resources via university consortia, 75 % of university funds are spent on periodicals. All peer groups demonstrate gradual migration to e-resources. In 2016, e-resources comprised 91 % of total acquisition expenses and e-books – 63 % of book acquisition. In Russia, more than 85 % of expenses on scholarly information belong to universities. From 2006 to 2014 average annual expenses on e-resources in Russian universities increased, however since the 2014, due to the economic crisis one can see shrinking of library expenses. This leads to a decrease in a number of acquired resources. Acquisition budgets of Russian leading universities (group 1) exceed budgets of non-leading universities (group 2) by ten times. In 2015, Russian universities spent 57 % of their acquisition budgets on the Elsevier databases.
Discussion and Conclusions. Information support at Russian and world universities show common trends and features. The data on the e-resource expenses can be used as indicator of research activity in Russian institutions. It can also affect the information providers and scholarly journal publishers in development of the marketing, subscription and pricing policy in Russia.
Keywords: university, information support, research activity, publication rate, acquisition, electronic resources, e-books, periodicals, library consortia, scholarly publisher
Acknowledgements: This work is fulfilled with financial support of Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. Unique ID is 14.597.11.0035. Authors are grateful to Olga Kirillova, President of Association of Science Editors and Publishers (ASEP) for valuable assistance in writing and editing this article.
For citation: Razumova I.K., Kuznetsov A.Yu. World and National Trends in University Libraries Acquisition. Integratsiya obrazovaniya = Integration of Education. 2018; 22(3):426-440. DOI : 10.15507/1991-9468.092.022.201803.426-440
Contribution of the authors: Irina K. Razumova – scientific guidance; concept and methodology development; data collection and analysis; text preparation. Alexander Yu. Kuznetsov – project general management; financial and resource support; study and critical analysis of the concept; text critical analysis and proofreading.
All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Submitted 05.02.2018; revised 11.07.2018; published online 28.09.2018.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
