Evolution of the big deals use in the public universities of the Castile and Leon region, Spain

  1. Andrés Fernández-Ramos 1
  2. Blanca Rodríguez-Bravo 1
  3. María-Luisa Alvite-Díez 1
  4. Lourdes Santos-De-Paz 1
  5. María-Antonia Morán-Suárez 1
  6. Josefa Gallego-Lorenzo 1
  7. Isabel Olea 1
  1. 1 Universidad de León
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    Universidad de León

    León, España

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Revue:
El profesional de la información

ISSN: 1386-6710,  1699-2407

Année de publication: 2019

Titre de la publication: Estructuras de poder en Comunicación / Power structures in Communication

Volumen: 28

Número: 6

Type: Article

DOI: 10.3145/EPI.2019.NOV.19 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openBULERIA editor

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Résumé

The evolution of the use of electronic scientific journals in the 2007-2018 period by the academic communities of the public universities of Castilla and Leon, members of the Bucle consortium, is studied. Downloads of articles distributed by four broad-spectrum providers are analyzed: Emerald, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, and Wiley. Unexpectedly, in spite of the new ways of accessing content, this analysis shows that the number of downloads in public universities in Castile and Leon has increased. However, it has been found that despite the growth, a few journals concentrate most of the downloads and that a large number of titles are not used. It has been verified that the universities with a higher number of staff and greater diversity of knowledge areas use a wider range of titles and thus obtain a higher benefit from their contracts. All of the above leads us to question the system of contracting big deals, i.e., bundles of hundreds of multidisciplinary journals and other resources. In a moment of change promoted by Plan S, we consider it more necessary than ever to understand the situation of the provision of serial scientific publications and to find the best strategy to have access to them.

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This research has been funded by the Programa Estatal de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación Orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad 2017 (the State Research, Development and Innovation Program for the Challenges of the Society 2017), convened by the Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness) and the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Spanish State Research Agency) (CSO2017-87956-R) and by the grant program aimed at supporting the accredited research groups of public universities of Castile and Leon started in 2018, convened by the Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Castilla y León (Ministry of Education of the Castile and Leon regional government) (LE028G18).

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