Primary Research Group has published Survey of Medical and Other Scientific Libraries, ISBN 1-57440-203-X.

This 200-page report examines the spending, staffing, and collection habits of over 40 medical and scientific libraries from all over the world, representing both the public and private sectors in higher education, government, non-profit organizations, and more. Budgets for staff salaries and materials spending are detailed in over 350 tables, with data broken out by type of library, annual budget, country, library subject matter, and library staff size. Special attention is given to the extent of library resources dedicated to scholarly and professional journals over the last two years, with an added emphasis on the popularity of electronic access journals and the future of print subscriptions. What efforts have been made to digitize special collections? How had materials spending—on audio-visual resources, on e-book readers and content—changed over the years? Which online booksellers do libraries turn to for book purchasing?

Just a few of the many findings from this report are:

• 43.48 percent of participants say that salaries and benefits for librarians employed at their respective institutions have "more or less declined in real terms" over the past year
• Medical and Biology libraries have the smallest budgets, with a mean of $596,000 that falls well below the overall sample mean of roughly $2 million
• The libraries in the sample spent a mean of $82,671 on traditional print books in 2011-12
• Just 15.56 percent of the libraries in the sample have purchased e-book readers, iPads, or other sorts of devices
• Exactly half of the libraries surveyed have a digital repository to which their institution's scholars and authors are encouraged to submit their works
• Libraries in developed countries outside the United States dedicated the highest proportion of their spending to electronic access only journals, a mean of $501,034.
• 87.5 percent of those libraries with 20 or more FTE staff members plan to increase spending on tablet computers and e-book readers

This study is available in print and PDF format for $92.00. Site licenses are offered at $199.00. To view a table of contents, list of questions and participants, and sample data, or to order a copy of the report, please visit our website.