The Comparison of the Journal's Subscription and Journal Usage in Academic Resource Center

Abstract

This research aims at investigating and analyzing Thai language and foreign languages journals in use of Academic Resource Center, in case of SuanSunandhaRajabhat University, Thailand as well asto study the worthiness of journal's subscription. Data isgatheredfrom 229 titles of Thai language journals and 81 titles of foreign language journals by in-house journal usage statistics for 2 periods, each period is 10 days. The quantitative approach uses in this research by mean of percentage, means and Spearman's correlation coefficient. Findings show that(1) 85 titles of Thai language journals was used 1,240 times, while 912 times was used in the second periods, and 25 titles of foreign language journals was used 316 times in the first period of study but 201 times was used in the second period. The frequent use of Thai language journal in both periods accounted for 80.63% and 19.37% was for foreign language journal. The date of the publications of the most frequency used for both Thai language journal and foreign language journal was 0-1 years (age 2 years). The time of the both journal's using wasbetween11.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. The correlation of both journals that was used in the periods of the study was no significance. (2) an average price of 310 journal usage was 320.14 baht each, but only 86 titles less than 320.14 baht each and 18 titles having higher than 320.14baht each. There are 206 titles have not been in use in the period of the study.