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PROGRAM QUALITY REVIEW
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
LIBRARY COLLECTIONS/SERVICES, 2000-2001
- 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 |
| URI total |
418522 |
1588691 |
2007213 |
416802 |
1405294 |
1822096 |
391203 |
1520471 |
1911674 |
| ELE |
0 |
40638 |
40638 |
1583 |
36953 |
38536 |
7645 |
39381 |
47026 |
| CHE |
0 |
36687 |
36687 |
1875 |
23559 |
25434 |
2107 |
24584 |
26691 |
| CVE |
620 |
31419 |
32039 |
2498 |
26843 |
29341 |
2760 |
28774 |
31534 |
| IME |
11083 |
7252 |
18335 |
1815 |
8266 |
10081 |
218 |
7335 |
7553 |
| MCE |
420 |
11768 |
12188 |
2529 |
17547 |
20076 |
3335 |
17864 |
21199 |
| OCE |
0 |
1326 |
1326 |
568 |
1525 |
2093 |
214 |
1955 |
2169 |
| COE* |
0 |
35840 |
35840 |
0 |
27643 |
27643 |
0 |
28840 |
28840 |
- 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 [LC] |
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 |
| TK ele.egr. |
6535 |
0.797 |
161 |
0.564 |
699 |
1.096 |
1257 |
1159 |
| T technology |
3166 |
0.386 |
94 |
0.329 |
186 |
0.292 |
564 |
544 |
| QC501-798 electricity |
2852 |
0.348 |
41 |
0.144 |
134 |
0.210 |
504 |
437 |
| QA1-99 mathematics |
7164 |
0.874 |
373 |
1.306 |
689 |
1.080 |
1053 |
879 |
| R-RZ medicine |
33830 |
4.127 |
2134 |
7.474 |
4706 |
7.378 |
7789 |
5586 |
- Scholarly Books published FY97-FY99: the following provides a look at the numbers of
book titles supplied to academic libraries in FY97-FY99 by broad subject:
| 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 |
| TK ele.egr. |
1049 |
$69,417 |
1062 |
$86,011 |
1181 |
$105,468 |
| T technology |
306 |
$19,412 |
333 |
$20,634 |
343 |
$25,397 |
| QA math. |
2647 |
$160,263 |
2540 |
$158,601 |
2857 |
$186,299 |
| QC physics |
579 |
$64,025 |
633 |
$62.634 |
749 |
$81,427 |
- Selective Journal Holdings: SCI/SSCI provide rankings of scholarly journals based on a
number of categories. The following is the ranking published in Journal Citation Reports
for 1998, by impact factor:
| Subject |
# of titles |
URI Holdings |
URI holdings of top ten |
URI holdings of 11-20 |
| Egineering |
59 |
11 |
3 |
2 |
| Egr., biomedical |
45 |
11 |
2 |
3 |
| Egr., electrical |
205 |
92 |
9 |
7 |
| Acoustics |
24 |
7 |
4 |
3 |
| Biotechnology |
122 |
28 |
2 |
2 |
| Comp.sci., artificial intell. |
61 |
9 |
2 |
3 |
| Comp.sci., cybernetics |
16 |
3 |
3 |
0 of 6 |
| Comp.sci. hardware |
47 |
20 |
9 |
4 |
| Comp.sci., info. Systems |
59 |
25 |
7 |
4 |
| Comp.sci., interdisciplinary |
70 |
15 |
1 |
4 |
| Comp.sci., software |
68 |
19 |
8 |
5 |
| Comp.sci., theory |
64 |
22 |
8 |
4 |
| Instruments |
52 |
13 |
3 |
1 |
| Mat.Sci. |
143 |
22 |
4 |
0 |
| Mat. Sci. biomedical |
11 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Math., applied |
138 |
28 |
5 |
2 |
| Telecomm. |
44 |
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WTO’M rev 3 Aug 00 |
