Where to spend our e-journal money? Defining a university library?s core collection through citation analysis

dc.contributor.author	Davis, Philip M.
dc.date.accessioned	2005-12-22T15:49:19Z
dc.date.available	2005-12-22T15:49:19Z
dc.date.issued	2002-01
dc.description.abstract	This paper identifies core journals in the life sciences for Cornell University researchers by analyzing the frequency of Cornell-authored citations in Biosis Previews between 1996 and 2001. The distribution frequency of journals confirms Bradford's Law of Scatter or the 80/20 Rule. The top 240 journals, providing 80% of the citations, were analyzed by publisher type and institutional subscription price. In general, journals from society and associations received the highest number of citations and were priced considerably lower than commercial journals. The methodology described is a fast, no-cost, and scalable procedure that can be adapted to various subject databases, and may be used to provide guidance on which titles to purchase for electronic access.	en_US
dc.format.extent	206107 bytes
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.citation	Portal, (2):1, 2002, p. 155-166	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/2559
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Johns Hopkins	en_US
dc.subject	electronic journals	en_US
dc.subject	collection building	en_US
dc.subject	university libraries	en_US
dc.title	Where to spend our e-journal money? Defining a university library?s core collection through citation analysis	en_US
dc.type	article	en_US

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