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Program Quality Review

1. FY97-99 Expenditures for Books, Journals, etc.[including electronic resources]: All URI academic departments are provided with a yearly allocation for books. The following provides the recent expenditures for Plant Sciences and related departments:

	FY97 Books	FY97 Jrnls	FY97 Total	FY98 Books	FY98 Jrnls	FY98 Total	FY99 Books	FY99 Jrnls	FY99 Total
pls	928	23988	24916	4538	22610	27148	6125	24608	30733
bio	2319	143528	145843	8380	122378	130758	7697	133660	141357
nrs	1762	9415	11177	2886	7610	10496	3314	7032	10346
uri	418522	1588691	2007213	416802	1405294	1822096	391203	1520471	1911674

2. 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 sized academic libraries, and the latest circulation statistics:

Subject	Total Items as of 5/99	% of total items held	Items added 95/99	% of Items added	Circ. Stats. FY99	% of total Circ.	1983-1993 imprints URI	1983-1993 imprints avg. peer library
Plant culture	4670	0.573	201	0.718	375	0.588	403	278
Forestry	702	0.086	36	0.126	42	0.066	83	72
Botany	7271	0.892	243	0.662	280	0.892	756	416
Inv.&Vert zool.	8236	1.010	310	1.086	1067	1.673	977	625

3. 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
Plant culture	313	$17,469	349	$18,846	317	$16,478
Forestry	20	$1,644	35	$2,120	36	$2,135
Botany	107	$11,300	125	$10,793	132	$16,701
Zoology	195	$12,436	247	$17,023	326	$23,183
Sci.,gen.	167	$19,728	248	$18,715	247	$18,336

* does not include university presses

4. 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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