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Carol TenopirUniversity of Tennessee
Journal Reading In Universities: Comparing the U.S. and Australia
(A Case Study)
Tenopir & King Data From:
• 25,000+ scientists, engineers, physicians, and social scientists
• 1977 to the present• University and non-university settings• Mostly North America• Recent surveys at 3 U.S. universities,
pediatricians, astronomers• UNSW staff and students in 2004, UQ
2005
150172
188216
0
50
100
150
200
250
1977 1984 1993 2000-03
Ave. Articles Read per Univ. ScientistA
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Year of Studies
Average Reading per Faculty member
186215
197216
175206
219
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50
100
150
200
250
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U ofTennessee
U ofPittsburgh
Drexel AllScientists
All-Non-Scientists
All US UNSW
UNSW Respondents
21%
12%
6%10%
22%
29%Medicine/health
Social Science
Sciences
Aviation/Engineering
Humanities
Other
Reading Varies by Subject Discipline and workplace
• Univ. medical• Pediatricians• Univ Scientists• All Scientists• Soc Sci/Psych• Engineers
• ~322 articles/year• ~180 articles/year• ~216 articles/year• ~130 articles/year• ~191 articles/year• ~111 articles/year
UNSW Reading by Subject
• Medical/Health• Engineering/Aviation• Sciences• Social Sciences• Humanities
• ~265• ~238• ~248• ~206• ~128
Print & Electronic Serial Titles in Australian and New Zealand Academic
Libraries
Source: CAUL Statistics http://www.caul.edu.au/stats/caul2002-pub.xls
Print and Electronic Titles
Electronic Titles
Electronic
253,627
17%
1,245,424
83%
Individual Electronic Serial Titles
Titles Within a Single Publisher CollectionTitles Within aggregations
43,301
4% 78,385
6%
1,123,738
90%
Reading from Print or Electronic
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
US all ('00-'03) UT ('00) Pitt ('03) Drexel ('02) UNSW ('04)
Print Electronic
• 18% of these are read on the screen
• 82% are printed out on paper for reading
UNSW Readings: 67.3% Electronic
Print or Electronic
80%
20%
Electronic
81%
19%
63%
37%
Astronomers
Pediatricians
University Science
67%
32%
UNSW
Form of Final Reading
Paper92.6%
Paper87.9%
Electronic12.1%
Electronic7.5%
Pediatriciansn=644
UNSW
56%
20%
15%
9%
Browsing
Online Searching
Cited in Other Pub.
Another Person
Other
Drexel21%
12%
12%
7%
48%
Tennessee
27%
10%
15%
45%
3%
Pittsburgh
MethodMethod ofof ArticleArticle DiscoveryDiscovery
20%
11%48%
11%
10%
UNSW
Pediatricians
1 year
2-5 years
> 6 years
ScientistsAstronomers
Year of Articles
81.3 %
17 %
2 %
68.8 %
20.8 %
10.4 %
64 %23 %
13 %
55.2%
23.8%
23.8%
UNSW
Principal Purpose of Reading: Pittsburgh
Research 50%Current Awareness 22%Teaching 18%Writing 10%
Principal Purpose of Reading: UNSW
Research 55%Teaching 16%Writing Proposals 14%Current Awareness 11%
UNSW Value of Reading
• Inspired new thinking 41.7%
• Improved the result 32.2%
• Narrowed the focus 25.2%
UNSW Readings Judged To Be…
4%
66%
31%Absolutely essential
Somewhat important
not at all
Average Number of Personal Subscriptions to Scholarly Journals
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
1977 1978-1983
1984 1985-1989
1990-1993
1994-1998
2000-2001
2002-2003
Years of Observation
Personal Subscriptions
All studies average under 2 U.S. science faculty average 3.6 Medical faculty and pediatricians average 5-
6 UNSW average 2
Sources of Readings of Scholarly Articles Overtime
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
1977 1993-1998 2001-2003
Personal Subs Library Subs Separates
Sources of Readings of Scholarly Articles in Universities
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
Personal Subs Library Subs Separates
UT Pitt Drexel UNSW
U.S. and Australian academics:
• Read for many reasons, research is #1
• Use many ways to find articles
• Use whatever is most convenient
• Prefer print for personal subscriptions, electronic for library subscriptions
• Patterns vary by subject discipline
But Australians…
• Rely more on electronic journals
• Read more older articles
• Browse more
• Use alerts more