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This 116-page report
studies the database licensing practices of 60 academic,
public, corporate, and law libraries from across the globe,
representing more than a dozen countries and regions including
the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and
continental Europe, as well as a handful of participants from
developing countries. With more than 200 tables, the report
covers issues such as the importance of mobile computing, the
use of library consortia, the use of open access and
electronic resources, and the indexing of blogs, wikis, and
listservs. Statistics are given citing library content
spending, overall licensing volume, renewal and cancellation
rates, contract terms, content licensing pricing, and general
library usage. How has database usage at the library changed
over the past year? How do these libraries rate their most
frequently used database vendors and what problems have they
encountered? What subjects of database content are expected to
benefit from an increase in spending? These questions and more
are answered in this detailed study on the database licensing
practices of a wide array of libraries.