The Effectiveness of providing electronic journals in JAERI

原研における電子ジャーナル提供の効果

野澤 隆 ; 羽原 正; 板橋 慶造; 石川 正; 米澤 稔  

Nozawa, Takashi; Habara, Tadashi; Itabashi, Keizo; Ishikawa, Masashi; Yonezawa, Minoru

外国雑誌の価格高騰及び購入予算の制約のため、原研の各地区図書室では需要に応じた冊子体数を維持することが困難な状況にある。このため、中央図書館である東海研究所図書館は、ホームページを介した電子ジャーナルの提供を実施し、各地区で利用できるようにしている。その有用性を明らかにするため、電子ジャーナルのアクセス回数や冊子体雑誌の貸出及び複写等の利用統計を分析した。これにより、原研における雑誌利用の特徴を把握し、最も効果的な雑誌提供方法について考察を試みる。

The JAERI has 10 branch research sites in Japan. Because of the resent budget shrinkage and increasing journal price, it becomes more difficult to keep sufficient journal coverage at each branch library. Some of the users can read printed journals for their research work while the others are obliged to request a photocopy of journal articles from the central library of JAERI or affiliated libraries. It is necessary to improve this information gap among the sites. One of our attempts was to provide the electronic journals through the intranet. We carried out the qualitative analysis on the trend of journals usage both in printed and in electronic form, from the viewpoint of the effectiveness of providing electronic journals. It was found out that the users having less printed journals more frequently access to the electronic journals. This means that electronic journals are useful for the solution of information gap among the sites. The analysis also indicated that there exists a cost-effective compromise between providing printed journals and providing electronic journals.