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Researchers and Information Content Michael Jubb RIN SCONUL Autumn Conference 16 December 2008

Publication and Dissemination
Scholarly journal articles
c 1.5m peer-reviewed articles produced each year
Conference proceedings
Monographs
Grey literature
Working papers and pre-prints
Datasets
Blogs, wikis…………….

Who reads it all?
Sources used by faculty in five US universities for their last substantive piece of reading
Longitudinal data from US studies by Tenopir and King
No similar studies undertaken in the UK

How much do they read?
Average number of articles read has risen from c185 a year in 1990 to c240 in 2005
Time spent reading articles c 132 hours a year

Purpose and Impact of Reading

Reading and Citing

UK Citing Behaviour

How much does this all cost?

Journal Spend and Journal Use
Spending on e-journals correlates strongly with use
This effect is not a function of the size of universities

Users and Producers

Journal Use and Research Outputs: PhD Awards

Journal Use and Research Outputs: Research Grants and Contract Income

Journal Use and Research Outputs: Publications

Information Inputs and Research Outputs

Related Issues
How do the behaviours of the top researchers differ from those of the rest?
Motivations, incentives and constraints underlying researchers’ decisions on
where, how and when to publish and disseminate
how are decisions influenced (or not) by research assessment/evaluation
What are the dimensions of researchers’ use of Web 2.0, and what are the implications?

Thank you Michael Jubb www.rin.ac.uk

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