Evolution of the big deals use in the public  universities of the Castile and Leon region, Spain

Fernández-Ramos, Andrés; Bravo, Blanca Rodríguez; Díez, María Luisa Alvite; Santos-De-Paz, Lourdes; Morán-Suárez, María-Antonia; Lorenzo, Josefa Gallego; Olea, Isabel

doi:10.3145/epi.2019.nov.19

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“…The same author, on the contrary, confirmed a role in the discovery of information by publishers. Regarding the main providers of electronic information, Gardner and Inger (2016) state that Elsevier's electronic resource platform, ScienceDirect, is the most used, a circumstance that is not surprising since it has been tested through usage metrics in all geographical areas, including Spain (Fernández-Ramos et al, 2019).…”

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Scientific information discovery and access: A bibliographic review

Rodríguez Bravo

2023

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This review study is based on original research studies investigating how scientific information is discovered and accessed. The study highlights the role of various platforms, including search engines, databases, repositories, web-scale discovery services, academic social media, and illegal platforms like Sci-Hub in this process. The results indicate that while libraries have implemented discovery services and repositories to increase their role in the discovery and access field, Google and Google Scholar are still the most popular options for discovering scientific information. Additionally, databases such as Web of Science, Scopus, and PubMed are also used by users, and newer platforms like ResearchGate and Sci-Hub have gained popularity for accessing scientific information

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Scientific information discovery and access: A bibliographic review

Rodríguez Bravo

2023

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“…Only about 8,000 of them are indexed in the Science Citation Index, which acts as a source to calculate the Impact Factors. One of the advantages of the UF is that, in theory, it could cover all online journals [10].…”

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The ease of access to information resources is becoming increasingly important when consulting a source of information. When researchers weigh the factors that lead them to decide which articles to read, the second most relevant factor, following the topic of the article, is the ease of access online. According to a recent survey, the ease of access is the main reason to choose to read a publication, even more so for young researchers [1]. A recent analysis of article downloading developed by researchers from 4 universities in Spain (Universidad de Burgos, León, Salamanca, and Valladolid) of the Elsevier, Emerald Springer, and Wiley journals shows that the downloads found have increased in the years 2012-2018, with Elsevier and ScienceDirect being the most used provider by far compared to the rest [2]. A priori, the demand for information is elastic, due to the variety of preferences of researchers, the search for information is concentrated in a limited number of reputable titles and linked to obtaining stability in academia [3]

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Use of scientific journals in Spanish universities: analysis of the relationship between citations and downloads in two university library consortia

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We analyse the relationship between downloads of electronic journals included in four big deal bundles subscribed to by public university libraries affiliated to two library consortia in Spain (Castile and León and Galicia) and citations of the same journals by researchers at these universities. Download data on the big deals analysed (Emerald, ScienceDirect, Springer and Wiley) were obtained from COUNTER Journal Reports 1, and citation data were obtained from the bibliographic references given in articles indexed in Scopus between 2010 and 2017. The results show that only a low percentage of the subscribed journals was used in the scientific output of the universities’ researchers, with values ranging from 15 to 50%, and that there was a strong correlation between the universities’ volume of scientific production and the percentage of cited journals. We also found a strong correlation between downloads and citations, which was higher in the case of universities with a higher scientific output.

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Evolution of the big deals use in the public universities of the Castile and Leon region, Spain

Cited by 7 publications

References 51 publications

Scientific information discovery and access: A bibliographic review

Scientific information discovery and access: A bibliographic review

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Use of scientific journals in Spanish universities: analysis of the relationship between citations and downloads in two university library consortia

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