Collections expenditures 2024-2025: about $3.7 or $3.8 million (about 31% of the total library budget and less than $200 per student)
Largest collection expenditures:
ScienceDirect journals -- Freedom Collection, about 2000 current journals (most but not all ScienceDirect journals)
Monographs: books, some video, some ebook -- approx. $459,000 (but see next page for more on ebooks)
Plus another $130,000 for ebook packages and $70,000 for streaming packages.
Wiley journals -- all Wiley--Blackwell journals
Springer Nature journals -- most but not quite all Springer journals. Just a few Nature journals -- a sore point.
Sage journals -- almost all Sage journals
We do not subscribe to a "Big Deal" with Taylor & Francis, but we spend about $80,000 on various T&F journals.
EBSCO databases -- We subscribe to about 15-20 of these. With some full text.
ProQuest databases -- These are mostly paid for by statewide NC Live service. With some full text.
Oxford journals -- We have all 350 of their current journals.
Use by AppState community -- Roughly 1/2 million subscription article downloads in 2024.
-- Circulation of physical books has fallen but might be levelling off finally at about 26,000 in 2023-2024.
-- But availability and use of ebooks has increased dramatically
Also see Databases, APPsearch, Catalog, e-Journals, and other access points. Or ask your librarian.
Some of the libraries' journal content is from JSTOR, ProQuest, and EBSCO. These vendors give us access to many journals on a delayed basis. We often use the term embargo. A 12 month embargo means that we get full text access only after 12 months passes from original publication. There are also often articles published under a label such as "Advance Access," for articles accepted and published but not assigned to an issue. Those will often be delayed for additional time from publication date. That is, a 12 month embargo might involve greater than a 12 month delay from publication in an issue.
We often have access to journals through more than one source. See eJournals on library webpage (center in August 2021). Also, we have a high-functioning system for accessing journal articles from other libraries, ILLiad.
