Empirical study on journal literature guarantee of academic library: A case study of Wuhan University

• 作者: Haining WANG Xincai WANG
• 来源期刊: 中国图书馆学报年刊(英文版)
• 学科: 社会科学
• 年，卷（期）: 2015,（1）
• 页码范围: 96-110
• 页数: 15页
• 分类号: G258.6

摘要

The rising acceptance of e-only policy and open access initiative transforms the collection composition in academic libraries. Accordingly, the roles of electronic, print and open access journals as part of a library’s journal holdings have become different from the past, which needs to be brought to the forefront. Samples of this research are drawn from the articles whose first author is from Wuhan University. They should be issued in 2013 and indexed by SCIE, SSCI or A&HCI. The authors introduced an improved citation checking method to the study by matching the journal cited references of the sample with the journals from print, electronic collections and the world’s major open access databases that are available at the Wuhan University Library in accordance with the publishing year instead of the volume number. Thus, the availability and unavailability of the source journals in open access, electronic, and print journal resources can be examined and compared in a comprehensive manner. By comparing the effectiveness of these three formats of resources as the reference source of published articles, this article attempts to analyze their features and tendencies under the current open access environment as well as discusses how the development of open access journals has impacted the collection building of university libraries in China, so as to provide enlightenment and reference for academic libraries to optimize their resource provision and meet the patrons’ current needs.