The Research Information Network has released E-Journals: Their Use, Value and Impact.
Here's an excerpt from the announcement:
The report was undertaken by the Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research (CIBER) at University College London for the RIN to provide a detailed analysis of how academic researchers in the UK have responded to the provision of e-journals, and how this has shaped their information seeking behaviour and their usage of e-journals. The project looked at:
- investigating researchers behaviour: looking at levels and patterns of use, the content viewed and how they navigate to it
- finding out how researchers' behaviours may vary by subjects and disciplines, and the type of university they study at
- gathering and analysing evidence of relationships between researchers' behaviour and institutional spending on e-journals, and
- gathering and analysing evidence of relations between researchers' behaviour and research productivity, outputs, including number of publications produced, citations attracted and the results of research evaluation.
