Value of the Online Newspaper Collection at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library
Hess, Kirk M.; Hoover, Sarah
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Title
Value of the Online Newspaper Collection at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library
Author(s)
Hess, Kirk M.
Hoover, Sarah
Issue Date
2014
Keyword(s)
Academic Library Assessment
Newspapers
Abstract
The University Library at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign licenses or owns over 10k
current and historical electronic newspaper titles
through five main vendors—EbscoHost, Gale,
LexisNexis, Newsbank, and ProQuest, including
the Library PressDisplay platform, yet we do not have
a reliable way to measure the value of an individual
newspaper to our campus. This analysis collected
information on utility at the title and vendor levels.
The next step is to analyze cost and quality, then
develop a three-factor weighted value algorithm to
score titles and aggregators as a tool for collection
development.
Utility was measured through reports of full-text
article requests in 2012 and 2013. Results revealed
that a small number of titles drove the use for almost
each of the vendors, and several vendors included
a large number of titles that were never used. In
addition, many of the most-used titles appear to
have been part of data mining activity. The study
also revealed some problems that would need to be
remediated to fully compare online newspaper titles
and collections, such as overlap in title lists, and other
variables that should be evaluated in our factors, such
as the impact of discovery and link resolver systems.
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