The survey of academic library subject specialists
Subtitle: Psychology & psychiatry
Publisher: Primary Research Group
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
ISBN-13: 9781574402407
Subjects: Academic libraries; Collection development; Acquisitions; Psychology; Information services; Psychiatry; Library surveys
Description: The study looks closely at the policies, preferences and materials purchasing plans of academic library subject specialists in psychology and psychiatry, focusing particularly on research universities and colleges that offer advanced degrees. The report presents data on overall psychology/psychiatry area subject budgets, and spending on books, eBooks, databases, journals and other information vehicles. In addition the report covers trends in prices, use of digital repositories, relations with psychology and psychiatry departments, funding and grants, the role of university presses, and acquisition plans in specific subject areas such as social psychology, experimental psychology, psychoanalysis, children's psychology and other areas.
Table of contents: title: Survey participants; title: The questionnaire; title: Characteristics of the sample; title: Broken out by total number of psychology/psychiatry majors; title: Summary of main findings; title: Materials prices; title: Subject specific acquisition plans; title: Trends in your subject area; title: Data in collection development decisions.