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PHYSICAL THERAPY PROGRAM
LIBRARY COLLECTIONS/SERVICES
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 |
| URI total |
418522 |
1588691 |
2007213 |
416802 |
1405294 |
1822096 |
391203 |
1520471 |
1911674 |
| PHT |
0 |
13906 |
13906 |
871 |
15094 |
15965 |
1767 |
16146 |
17913 |
| PED |
0 |
2972 |
2972 |
981 |
2893 |
3874 |
458 |
3099 |
3557 |
| HLT* |
0 |
24630 |
24630 |
0 |
9933 |
9933 |
0 |
10898 |
10898 |
| NUR |
7815 |
23180 |
30995 |
4647 |
25100 |
29747 |
6238 |
25431 |
31669 |
* HLT is a non-departmental allocation for general health science journals
- 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 |
| Therapetics |
2237 |
0.274 |
109 |
0.382 |
252 |
0.395 |
486 |
249 |
| Human anat |
515 |
0.063 |
24 |
0.084 |
50 |
0.078 |
61 |
68 |
| Surgery |
1109 |
0.136 |
129 |
0.452 |
137 |
0.215 |
269 |
190 |
| Int.medicine |
678 |
0.083 |
42 |
0.147 |
30 |
0.047 |
130 |
104 |
- 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 |
| Therapeutics |
249 |
$14,275 |
271 |
$15,595 |
261 |
$16,107 |
| Human anatomy |
43 |
$2,626 |
50 |
$2,455 |
63 |
$6,221 |
| Internal medicine |
1465 |
$102,954 |
1548 |
$116,075 |
1485 |
$118,593 |
| Surgery |
254 |
$28,646 |
361 |
$39,615 |
344 |
439,763 |
* does not include university presses
- 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 10 |
URI holdings of 11-20 |
| Anatomy |
17 |
1 |
1 |
0 of 7 |
| Publ., envir. & occ. Health |
80 |
19 |
4 |
3 |
| Rehabilitation |
17 |
8 |
7 |
1 of 7 |
| Sports science |
58 |
19 |
8 |
5 |
Eileen M. Wakiji in "Mapping the literature of physical therapy"
Bull.Med.Libr.Assoc, 85(3),July 1997 p.284-288, identifies the core physical therapy
journals. "Using Bradford’s law of scattering, this bibliometric analysis found
that fourteen journals constitute the core journal literature for physical therapy. These
fourteen journals constitute the first, or nuclear zone which contains a small number of
highly productive journals and one-third of the cited journal articles…Zone 2,
containing the second one-third of the most frequently cited journal articles, has
ninety-five journals." URI subscribes to 13 of the 14 in the top tier, and 58 of the
95 titles in the second tier.
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