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Program Quality Review

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]:

Dept.	FY97 Books	FY97 Jrnls	FY97 Total	FY98 Books	FY98 Jrnls	FY98 Total	FY99 Books	FY99 Jrnls	FY99 Total
Lib. Total	418522	1588691	2007213	416802	1405294	1822096	391203	1520471	1911674
PSY	2550	42492	45042	4421	44689	49110	6925	40633	47558
SOC	2625	21848	24473	6481	21591	28072	6372	23811	30183
EDC	611	16185	16796	2171	16727	18898	2613	17756	20369
HDF	702	4767	5469	893	6845	7738	2595	7239	9834

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 size academic libraries, and the latest circulation statistics:

Subject	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
Psychology	11106	1.355	508	1.779	1668	2.615	2023	1808
Parapsy/Occult	448	0.055	19	0.067	124	0.194	64	68
Soc.Sci.,Gen	2962	0.361	70	0.245	224	0.351	371	335
Statistics	1386	0.169	39	0.137	116	0.182	105	108
Sociology	5823	0.710	244	0.855	555	0.870	961	817
Soc.history	4346	0.530	132	0.462	217	0.340	808	678
Family/Sex	10968	1.338	819	2.868	1877	2.943	3213	2127
Society	191	0.023	3	0.011	40	0.063	29	28
Class/Race	4216	0.514	106	0.371	322	0.505	684	528
Soc.Wk/Crim	10044	1.225	438	1.534	1630	2.556	2006	2107
Educ.practice	13698	1.681	362	1.268	1207	1.892	1883	2352
Nerv.system	1830	0.223	85	0.298	205	0.321	391	352
Mental illness	5351	0.653	305	1.068	1235	1.936	1408	1252

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
Psychology	623	$25,667	715	$29,914	821	$43,321
Educ. Practice	799	$30,341	916	$35,795	910	$40,559
Physiology	430	$52,394	422	$43,715	445	$46,090
Internal Medicine	1548	$116,075	1626	$128,438	1726	$132,495

* does not include university presses

4. Selective Journal Holdings: SSCI 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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