Paper Info
Title
Consortial Use of Electronic Journals in Turkish Universities
Abstract
The use of electronic journals has outnumbered that of printed journals within the last decade. The consortial use of electronic journals through publishers' or aggregators' web sites is on the rise worldwide. This is also the case for Turkey. The Turkish academic community downloaded close to 50 million full- text articles from various electronic journal databases since the year 2000. This paper analyzes the seven-years' worth of journal use data comprising more than 25 million full-text articles downloaded from Elsevier's ScienceDirect (SD) electronic journals package between 2001 and 2007. Some 100 core journals, constituting only 5% of all SD journal titles, satisfied over 8.4 million download requests. The lists of core journals were quite stable, consistently satisfying one third of all demand. A large number of journal titles were rarely used while some were never used at all. The correlation between the impact factors (IFs) of core journal titles and the number of downloads therefrom was rather low. Findings can be used to develop better consortial collection management policies and empower the consortium management to negotiate better deals with publishers. Studies based on such analyses of empirical journal use data are scarce in Turkey. This paper attempts to identify the most frequently used core journals by Turkish academic users. Our analysis is based on data of more than 25 million full-text articles downloaded by Turkish universities from Elsevier's ScienceDirect (SD) electronic journal package over a seven-year period (2001-2007), making it perhaps one of the most comprehensive electronic journal use studies carried out on a national scale. The volume of data enables us to identify the core journals as well as to determine their stability over the years. Findings can be used to develop better collection management policies and improve the conditions of the national consortial license for Turkish universities.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2008
ELPUB 1997
bradford law of scattering,turkish universities,core journal titles,electronic journals,consortial use of electronic journals,sciencedirect.,satisfiability
Field
DocType
Citations 
Electronic journal,World Wide Web,Turkish,Computer science,Download,Academic community,Negotiation
Conference
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
13
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yasar Tonta1459.39
Yurdagül Ünal2115.61