Overview
The Journal Usage Project extends the research initially conducted by Dr. Vincent Larivière, Université de Montréal and with three other universities in Quebec that examined the impact on libraries of the consolidation of journal publishing and the development of what is known in the industry as the “big deal”. The extension of the research on a national scale offers individual institutions insight into usage and citations on their own campuses as compared with faculty perceptions of journal value. It also affords the opportunity for some analysis of the data across CRKN member universities.
Also, on a national scale, this research will explore whether there are similarities, differences, or trends in usage, citation, faculty perceptions, or other factors among various types of institutions in Canada (for example, teaching-focussed and research-focussed institutions, French and English institutions, regional differences, etc.).
The following 28 CRKN member institutions are participating in this project:
Atlantic Region:
- Dalhousie University
- Memorial University of Newfoundland
- University of New Brunswick
Quebec:
- Concordia University
- McGill University
- Université de Montréal
Ontario:
- Brock University
- Carleton University
- Lakehead University
- Queen’s University
- University of Guelph
- University of Ottawa
- University of Waterloo
- University of Windsor
- Western University
- York University
Western Region:
- MacEwan University
- Mount Royal University
- Simon Fraser University
- University of Alberta
- University of British Columbia
- University of Calgary
- University of Lethbridge
- University of Manitoba
- University of Regina
- University of Saskatchewan
- University of Victoria
- Vancouver Island University
For more information about this project, please contact Kimberly Silk, Special Projects Officer at ksilk@crkn.ca