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Program Quality Review

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
FST	1541	8809	10350	3153	8695	11848	3286	9405	12691
BIO	2319	143524	145843	8380	122378	130758	7697	133660	141357
BMM	1331	75033	76364	2330	49575	51905	4301	53050	57351
OCG	6625	131713	138338	23097	108561	131658	13439	145479	158918

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 [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
Animal culture*	0	0.000	43	0.151	0	0	139	125
Veterinary medicine	2079	0.254	56	0.196	156	0.245	136	74
Fish culture	7983	0.974	131	0.459	434	0.680	332	66
Physiology	3218	0.393	112	0.392	379	0.594	510	399
Nervous system	1830	0.223	85	0.298	205	0.321	391	352
Animal biochem.	2919	0.356	155	0.543	278	0.436	452	332

* incorporated into ‘veterinary medicine’

2. 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
Animal culture	225	$8,153	226	$9,910	216	$9,574
Aqua culture	36	$2,488	36	$1,830	57	$3,757
Physiology	430	$52,394	422	$43,715	445	$46,090

3. 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:

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