Survey Of Library Database Licensing Practices

Download or read book Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices written by and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study presents data from 90 libraries ¿ corporate, legal, college, public, state, and non-profit libraries ¿ about their database licensing practices. More than half of the participating libraries are from the USA, and the rest are from Canada, Australia, the UK, and other countries. Data is broken out by type and size of library, we well as for overall level of database expenditure. The 100+ page study, with more than 400 tables and charts, presents benchmarking data enabling librarians to compare their library¿s practices to peers in many areas related to licensing.