The study looks closely at the database licensing practices of major academic and research libraries, examining issues such as disputes with vendors, purchasing plans, spending volume, impact of open access journals, staff time related to database purchases, and many other issues of interest to acquisitions and licensing librarians and others involved in intellectual property purchasing. Among the issues covered are: spending plans for ebooks, electronic directories, electronic journals, index databases; current and projected spending broken down by subject area; use of attorneys in disputes with database vendors, and much more.

This report looks closely at database licensing issues in the USA, Australia, continental Europe, the UK and other countries and areas. The study is based on data from 70 major libraries, predominantly academic and special The report covers spending and procurement trends, use of eBooks and electronic directories as well as major databases, the impact of mobile computing and many other issues. The study looks closely at librarian preferences for the inclusion of various kinds of cyber materials in full text databases.Also covered in great detail are library spending plans, subscription renewal plans and views of price increases for various kinds of electronic content. The report also covers the impact of digital repositories and open access publishing on database procurement, as well as providing detailed data on the prevalence of legal disputes between publishers and libraries. The 115+ page report presents a plethora of unique data on library purchasing practices for databases.

This international study presents data from 29 colleges and universities about their database licensing practices, including spending data on eBooks, databases, and eJournals. The report looks closely at trends in how staff time is consumed on issues such as invoice-checking, contract examination, training patrons in database use and other tasks. In addition we probe librarian feelings on additions to or subtractions from their current database portfolio and their level of interest in novel database such as those of syllabi, open access course materials, textbooks, classroom video and blogs. The report looks at the use of free information resources such as Google Scholar, and tracks librarian assessment of the rate of price increases for online information. The study also probes opinions about the use of file sharing sites that make copyright publications available at no charge without the permission of the publishers. The study also looks at disputes with vendors providing data on the use of lawyers in contract disputes and the frequency of publisher audits and other behavior designed to Some of the survey participants are: Johns Hopkins University Welch Medical Library, the Australian National University, Vanderbilt University, Saskatchewan Polytechnic, University at Buffalo and UCONN Health, among others.Just a few of the report's many findings are that:· 8.52% of the time spent in database research by librarians sampled was spent on Google Scholar.· Public colleges in the sample spent a mean of $82,600 on eBook licenses in the past year.· Laptops accounted for a mean of 42% of database access for the libraries sampled, fixed workstations for 40.33%.· Research university libraries spent an average of more than 2,000 staff hours per year reviewing and paying invoices from database vendors.

The 105-page report gives detailed data about the acquisition, licensing deployment and management of online databases by law libraries in the United States and Canada. The study helps its readers to answer questions such as: How do law libraries value and evaluate different vendors of online databases? How much do they spend and plan to spend and on what kinds of products do they plan to expand their collections? What do they think of the training provided by database vendors and what are their feelings about the rate of price increases? How do they feel about eBooks? What are the most valuable sources of free legal information and how have these sources - such as Google Scholar and FindLaw - impacted legal information use? In addition, the report explores the nature of negotiations between vendors and libraries, highlighting areas open to negotiation and the results of such negotiations.The study also gives detailed information on the size of staff maintained to deal with online licenses, legal expenditures for contracts, use of consortia and the annual staff time, and cost of this staff time, spent in reviewing and paying invoices for online information. Data also details the propensity to sue vendors and to be sued by them.Data in the report is broken out separately by size and type of law library. Just a few of the report's many finding are that: *The law firm libraries in the sample spent a mean of more than 845 hours of annual staff time in reviewing and paying invoices for online information.*Law libraries sampled expected to increase their number of online contracts in the next year by 2.8%.*42.86% of libraries sampled provided access to the Bloomberg legal information service.*Google Scholar accounted for 5.9% of the overall legal research time for law librarians in the law firms in the sample.*Tablet computers accounted for 4.46% of access to online databases for the law libraries sampled with a median of 5% and a range of 0 to 20%.

This report looks closely at the licensing and copyright management practices of leading academic, special and state libraries. Among the organziations profiled are: The University of Idaho, IBM, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the University of South Carolina, and many others. Issues discussed include: recruitment of group buying partners, terms of consortium membership, authentication, archiving, title record keeping and accounting, the consolidation of buying power, state mandated contract language, changes in pricing over the life of contracts - and many other issues that impact database licensing.

The Survey of Library Services for Distance Learning Programs presents benchmarking data from more than 100 college libraries concerning their programs for serving their distance learning students. This 145 page report gives extensive data, broken out by size and type of college, for public and private colleges, and for U.S. and Non-U.S. libraries. Among the more than 500 tables of data presented is information about: use of real time chat and virtual reference services for distance learners; percentage of libraries that offer special classes for distance learners; future plans to offer information literacy courses to distance learners; policies on providing web pages, blogs or listservs that specifically serve the needs of distance learners; number of interactive online tutorials provided to distance learners; state of relations between the library and distance learning instructors; percentage of libraries with equivalent of library orientation program for distance learners; the role that libraries play in distance learning orientation; percentage of libraries that maintain agreements with other colleges to offer library services to their students; percentage of libraries with an official liaison to the distance learning program; percentage of libraries with a full time position devoted to distance learning; staff size for library distance learning staffs; policies on line item in the library budget for distance learning; evaluation of distance learners use of the library; evaluation of distance learners information literacy skills; distance learner attitudes towards the library; assessment of the reference needs of distance learners; electronic reserve policies for distance learners; spending on shipping costs to serve distance learners; library's primary means of shipping books and other materials to distance learners; library staff responsible for serving distance learners; provision of remote assistance by the library in how to use the courseware management system; level of access to library databases provided to distance learners; copyright issues; annual salary of librarians devoted to distance learning.