Faculty Use of Subscribed Journals in a Spanish Library Consortium: Downloads and Citations in the Field of Psychology

Abstract

We present a case study to analyze the bibliographic references used in the scientific production on psychology in Scopus of the four universities that make up a library consortium in Spain and compare this with downloads of journals included in the Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, and Emerald big deals subscribed to by this consortium. A majority use journals scribed to through the big deals is observed, at the level of both downloads and citations, although with a weak correlation between the two variables.

Keywords:

• Big deals
• citations
• downloads
• psychology
• serials

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This research has been funded by the State Program for Research, Development and Innovation Oriented to the Challenges of Society 2017, convened by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness and the Spanish State Research Agency [CSO2017-87956-R], and by the program of grants designed to support the recognized research groups of public universities in Castile and Leon that began in 2018, convened by the Ministry of Education of the Government of Castile and Leon [LE028G18].