Collection and Curation: Volume 39 Issue 1

Collection development procedure adopted for acquisition of EIRs across agricultural libraries of northern India

Nazir Ahmad Bhat, Shabir Ahmad Ganaie

The purpose of this paper is to explore the change(s) brought about by the advent of electronic information resources in the overall collection development process across…

How librarians make decisions: the interplay of subjective and quantitative factors in the cancellation of Big Deals

Catherine Anne Johnson, Samuel Cassady

The purpose of this study is to investigate the decision-making process of librarians at the University of Western Ontario who attempted to cancel the Wiley Big Deal. The aim of…

Are library electronic resources providing adequate support for research? A case study of a federal university in the United Arab Emirates

Lilly Hoi Sze Ho

Middle Eastern universities have recently been included in international rankings, driving a shift in priorities from teaching to research. However, research-centric collection…

Department-specific collection assessment

Xiaocan Wang, Jie Huang

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the pilot project of collection assessment performed by an academic library for the Computer Information Science (CIS) Department…