The Use of Citation Data to Evaluate Serials Subscriptions in an Academic Library

Swigger, Keith; Wilkes, Adeline

doi:10.1080/00987913.1991.10764002

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“…In the past, citation studies have been conducted in many cases in order to determine journal use, e.g. [1][2][3][4][5]. An alternative source besides citation data may be found in article orders from document delivery services.…”

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Document delivery as a source for bibliometric analyses: the case of Subito

Schloegl

Gorraiz

2006

Journal of Information Science

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This paper deals with a bibliometric analysis of data from the document delivery service Subito. After a short introduction, Subito will be presented briefly. The main part reports on the design and the results of the study, which covers the following major topics:• distribution of article orders to journals, • identification of the core journals which contribute to most article supplies, • subject distribution of the most requested journals, • relation between the most requested (Subito) and the most cited journals (SCI), • differences in age of ordered and cited articles, and • dependency of journal requests on their subscription rates.As will be shown, most Subito article orders are covered by a relatively small number of journals, most of which are from life sciences, especially medicine. There is only a slight overlap between the most requested and the most cited journals suggesting that these two indicators represent different concepts. This is also confirmed by different obsolescence characteristics. The share of current publications is much higher among ordered than among cited articles. Finally, there was no evidence that articles of journals with higher subscription rates are ordered more often.

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Document delivery as a source for bibliometric analyses: the case of Subito

Schloegl

Gorraiz

2006

Journal of Information Science

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“…Indeed, sev eral studies comparing disparate measures of the demand for or usefulness of serial titles have reported relatively low corre spondence among measures such as reshelving and citation counts, reshelving and faculty ratings, or citation counts and interlibrary borrowing. 3 The purpose of acquiring and assembling the indicated measures was to triangulate toward the truth and reduce error by bringing to gether complementary kinds of data bearing on different aspects of value and demand. Table 1 illustrates the various data elements used as criteria indicating the use and value of serial titles, showing the number of cases with data and the highest-ranked two titles for each cri terion.…”

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Building a Comprehensive Serials Decision Database at Virginia Tech

Metz

Cosgriff²

2000

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Although for many years academic libraries have relied on data on cost, library use, or citations to inform collection development decisions respecting serials, they have not fully exploited the possibilities for compiling numerous measures into comprehensive databases for decision support. The authors discuss the procedures used and the advantages realized from an effort to build such a resource at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), where the available data included the results of a zero-based faculty survey of serials needs.

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“…The latter approach is taken in this paper. Kneider [15] [20] note that "the citation method is the most reliable of the three".…”

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confidence: 99%