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Program Quality Review

PROGRAM QUALITY REVIEW 1999-2000

FY97-99 Expenditures for Books and Journals [including electronic databases]: all URI academic departments are provided with a yearly allocation for books. The following provides recent expenditures for your department [along with departments covering related subject areas]:

Dept.	FY97 Books	FY97 Jrnls	FY97 Total	FY98 Books	FY98 Jrnls	FY98 Total	FY99 Books	FY99 Jrnls	FY99 Total
Lib. Total	418522	1588691	2007213	416802	1405294	1822096	391203	1520471	1911674
Bmmg	1331	75033	76364	2330	49575	51905	4301	53050	57351
Bio	2319	143524	145843	8380	122378	130758	7697	133660	141357
Chm	11124	129401	140529	12022	81553	93575	20641	86857	107494
Fsn	0	18815	18815	337	22423	22760	1081	24548	25629
Phy	1809	100073	101882	3154	93513	96667	3251	102570	105821

1. View of Book Collections by Selective Subjects (LC): the following provides a broad look at the scope of URI’s book collection, recent activity in adding to the collection, the scope of that activity in relation to the whole and in relation to other medium size academic libraries, and the latest circulation statistics:

SUBJECT	Total Items as of 6/99	% of Total Items Held	Books Added 95/99	% of Items Added	Circ. Stats FY99	% of Total Circ.	Books Added 1983-1993	Avg. Added Peer Group
Microbiology	3091	0.377	82	0.287	252	0.395	497	298
Anim.bioch.	2919	0.356	155	0.543	278	0.436	452	332
Zoology,Gen	2008	0.245	26	0.091	86	0.135	133	118
Microscopy	383	0.047	9	0.032	19	0.030	42	27
Biology,Gen	8165	0.996	286	1.002	774	1.214	1133	827
Agriculture	2859	0.349	76	0.266	186	0.292	261	192
Aquaculture	7983	0.974	131	0.459	434	0.680	442	66

2. Scholarly Books published FY97-FY99: the following provides a look at the numbers of book titles supplied to academic libraries in FY97-FY99:

Subject	1996/97	1996/97	1997/98	1997/98	1998/99	1998/99
	# of titles*	$ of titles*	# of titles	$ of titles	# of titles	$ of titles
Biology	331	$27,205	419	$34,889	503	$39,419
Zoology	195	$12,426	247	$17,023	326	$23,183
Microbiology	157	$15,319	159	$18,197	161	$18,176
Science, Gen.	167	$19,728	248	$18,715	247	$18,336
Aquaculture	36	$2,488	36	$1,830	57	$3,757

* does not include university presses

3. Selective Journal Holdings: SCI provides rankings of scientific journals based on a number of categories. The following is the ranking published in Journal Citation Reports for 1998, by impact factor :

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