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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

LIBRARY COLLECTIONS/SERVICES

1999-2000

  1. 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]:
  2. 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
    ENG 5163 10658 15821 10992 10210 21202 10580 11047 21627
    LAN 9028 22051 31079 7319 19429 26748 11011 20699 31710
    COM 42 661 703 664 2420 3084 1120 2361 3481
    HIS 3681 14242 17923 13400 14613 28013 9918 11737 21655
    WMS 581 955 1536 1940 1099 3039 1316 1161 2477
    AAF 23 1658 1681 686 1717 2403 793 1816 2609
  3. 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:
  4. 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
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  5. 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:
  6. 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
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
  7. 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
         
         
         
         

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