Electronic expenditure at UNL (as with all materials
expenditure)is devolved to faculty level and expenditure
varies greatly by faculty. End of year expenditure for
business will be about £74,000 out of a total of about
£191,500 (over 38%). This covers nearly all material in
electronic format, though in practice most of this
expenditure is on web sources. The exception to the nearly
is that supplementary payments to upgrade print
subscriptions fall on the print periodicals budget. The
Hydra financial information database falls on a central
Information Systems and Services budget not a library
budget (Having originally been on the Business School
budget - the Dean persuaded the head of ISS to take it on).
This is about 9500 including the OECD economics module.
Some sources of relevance to more than one faculty (eg
Pscyinfo) are on a central library budget.
I would have liked to have pushed some of the expenditure
down to subject level but allocating it would be
problematic (and contentious). For example not all use of
Mintel and Keynote is by marketing students. Our ATHENS
usernames passwords don't break down far enough to assist
assessment of use at subject level.
Some years back all electronic expenditure fell on a
central library budget but this was felt to inhibit
trade-offs between print and electronic sources of
information.
Things will get more complicated when we merge with London
Guidhall in August as we will have 12+ schools instead of
four faculties.
Let me know if you would like further clarification.
Christine Lamb
Business School Librarian
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On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 10:06:08 +0100 Dakin Sarah
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> I am in the process of preparing budget proposals for next year, and I would
> be interested to hear what percentage of your total resource budget is
> allocated to electronic resources.
>
> In addition, it would help if you could also provide me with your definition
> of "electronic resources", (i.e. does this cover CD-ROMs, in addition to
> online full-text and indexes/abstracts).
>
> Replies to me please, and I will summarise for the list. Thanks in advance
> for your replies.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sarah
>
> Sarah Dakin
> Information Officer
> Learning & Information Services
> Liverpool John Moores University
> Avril Robarts
> 79 Tithebarn Street
> Liverpool L2 2ER
>
> email: [log in to unmask]
> phone: 0151 231 4268
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