Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Print & Electronic Library Collections of Scholarly Journals, ISBN 1-57440-134-3.  The study is based on a survey of 550+ higher education faculty in the USA and Canada.   Faculty present their opinions on preferences for print or paper journal formats, degree of  problems with archival access, use of url-catalog links to journals, extent to which their college library journal collection satisfies their scholarly needs, and frequency of database access and library visits. Data is broken out by 12 criteria including age, academic field or specialty, type of college, size of college, frequency of library use, and many other factors.

Just a few findings of the report are:

†      Canadian faculty were more likely than American faculty to think of the paper

copies as a waste of time – nearly 45% thought so.

†      In general, age was highly inversely correlated with the tendency to think of paper copies as wasteful and redundant when online versions were available. 

†      Only 13.86% of faculty at research universities prefer paper to online journal

formats.

†      Only a third of community college faculty express support for increased spending on academic journals while about 64.3% of faculty in MA/Ph.D. granting colleges expressed such support.

      The study is available from Primary Research Group or from major book distributors; the cost of the study is for PDF or print versions. Site Licenses are also available. To order or for further information, view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com or call us at 212-736-2316.