Payne, Valerie J. and Burke, Mary A. (1997) A cost-effectiveness study of ownership versus access. The Serials Librarian, 32 (3/4). pp. 139-152.

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This paper describes a method which was used to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of three different ways of supplying periodical articles in an academic library. The methods considered were: subscribing to a periodical title (ownership); individual article supply provided by two electronic document delivery services, ArticlesFirst of OCLC FirstSearch and UnCover; and traditional article supply through the British Library Document Supply Centre. The operational costs of the alternatives are obtained by taking a management accounting approach and are examined in relation to the provision of the services within the library of St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, Ireland. The cost-per-use of owning a periodical title is calculated based on the operational costs of the Periodicals Department of the library, its subscription price and a lifetime use determined by examination of the current requests for articles made through the library's Inter-Library Loans Department. The cost-per-use for the other services are also calculated based on their operational costs and document delivery charges.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Article copies available from The Haworth Document Delivery Service; 1-800-HAWORTH. E-mail address: docdelivery@haworthpress.com
Keywords:	cost-effectiveness, ownership, just-in-case, just-in-time,
Academic Unit:	University Library
Item ID:	99
Depositing User:	Val Payne
Date Deposited:	13 May 2003
Journal or Publication Title:	The Serials Librarian
Publisher:	The Haworth Press, Inc. Binghampton, N.Y.
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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