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This report is based on a survey of thirty five academic
library subject specialists in economics and finance,
predominantly from research universities, including
Northwestern, Georgetown, Princeton and many others. The study
gives detailed data on budgets and spending patterns of
subject specialists in economics and finance, including
information on usage of eBooks, traditional books, databases
and scholarly journals. The study also reports on collection
development plans in a broad range of subject areas including
energy economics, agricultural economics, macroeconomics,
microeconomics, accounting, portfolio management,
international financial regulation, econometrics, mathematical
methods, economic area studies in Asia, Europe and North and
South America (each region reported on separately), and many
other subject areas.
The study reports on how finance and economics subject
specialists use their time, breaking down their activities
among categories such as information literacy, acquisitions
and collection development and other areas. The report
measures the extent to which university presses account for
materials purchases in the field, and gives detailed info on
the impact of blogs in economics and finance. Other
topics covered include data on spending accounted for by
contributions from economics and finance departments to
economics and finance library purchases, and spending
accounted for by grants or endowments specified for materials
purchases in economics and finance.
