Ejournal Survey

[Wilder, Rayette]

Hello Web4Libers,
Since some of you may be involved with electronic journals and serials
acquisition I'd like to request your help.
Below is a survey for United States academic serials librarians, to gather
information to be presented at the NASIG conference next June by  Konny
Thompson and myself.  We are librarians at Gonzaga University in Spokane,
Washington. We are sending this to several lists, so please excuse the
duplication.  We would like to have the replies by February 15 -- and please
be sure to reply to my address (wilder at its.gonzaga.edu) and not to the list.
Thanks in advance for the effort of filling this out.

Bundled Databases Impact on Serials Acquisitions in Academic Libraries
Survey

Bundled databases are a collections of databases which may consist of
bibliographic citations, full-text articles or both which are licensed as
one indivisible unit.  The proliferation of journal articles available from
full-text databases has dramatically impacted library services.  Serials
acquisitions has arguably born the brunt of this impact.  This survey is
designed to assess the changes to serial acquisitions in academic libraries
created by the licensing of bundled databases.

Questions:

1.	Name of institution.


2.	Your job title


3.	Size of institution based on student FTE and annual serials budget.

4.	How many bundled databases do you subscribe to?  Please list.

5.	Has your library received an influx of new funding to pay for the
bundled database or are you spending from unaugmented funds? Do the database
license payments come from serials budget or another budget line?

6.	Who negotiates the licensing agreement?

7.	Does your institution participate in consortial licensing?  For
which databases?

8.	Has your purchasing power for paper serials been reduced as a result
of the purchase of full-text databases?

9.	If you subscribe to a bundled product, what percentage of titles
would you choose to order on an individual title basis (okay to estimate)?

10.	Does your institution have any policy on buying packaged or bundled
full-text products? 

11.	Are you familiar with the International Coalition of Library
Consortia's standards policy for the purchase of electronic serials and
databases? Does your institution comply with or support the standards policy
for the purchase of electronic serials and databases? Have you adopted these
guidelines for license acceptance?  If not, have you developed your own
guidelines for accepting licenses?

12.	What has influenced your decision to follow the guidelines or set
your own standards?

13.	Are the technological capabilities of your institution and your
primary constituents taken into consideration when licensing a new product
(e.g. can distance education students access the database, do you need the
latest version of software, etc)?

14.	Did you cancel any print subscriptions when you acquired the bundled
database?  What guided that decision?  If the database drops full-text
coverage of a title does your institution have policies or guidelines for
this situation?