Abstract
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community has been digitised and can be accessed in full on this website. All content is freely available on an open-access basis. Serials was published between 1988 and 2011. In 2012, the journal was retitled and is now published as Insights: the UKSG journal.
Highlights
The availability of electronic journals in the French academic community improved in a spectacular way since the creation of the national university consortium Couperin[1] in 1999, expanding from 53,403 (2000) to 477,391 (2005) online subscriptions, while the overall expenses for scientific and technical information (STI) in university libraries increased only at a rate of 17%, from €70m (2001) to €82m (2005)
We have no usage statistics for 1999 but based on the number of e-subscriptions in 1999 we can estimate that the number had been noticeably below one million requests
Faculties of law and business (LB), including economics and management, accounted for 3%; only 1% came from social sciences and humanities (SS&H), including arts, universities
Summary
The availability of electronic journals in the French academic community improved in a spectacular way since the creation of the national university consortium Couperin[1] in 1999, expanding from 53,403 (2000) to 477,391 (2005) online subscriptions (factor 8), while the overall expenses for scientific and technical information (STI) in university libraries increased only at a rate of 17%, from €70m (2001) to €82m (2005). Except for some local data, so far little was known on the overall uptake and real usage of these resources; more generally, very few statistical surveys on usage data of online digital resources have been published in France up to now.[2]. Funded by the French National Agency of Research (ANR) from 2006 to 2009, the Evaluation des Périodiques Electroniques dans le Réseau Universitaire Français (EPEF) project[3] collects nationwide usage data from university libraries and analyses general and domain-specific trends. It introduces international standards on usage statistics and metrics in France[4] and conducts qualitative surveys on usage behaviours. The specifics of the EPEF approach are a successful collaboration between academics, scientists, LIS professionals (librarians) and end-users, interdisciplinary work at the crossroads of social, economical and information sciences, and the emphasis laid on economical aspects (‘value for money’)
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