* * * Apologies for cross posting * * * The one millionth publication to appear on the RSC Publishing Platform went online recently in a landmark achievement for the learned society. The seven figure milestone was reached as the RSC's exceptional range of peer-reviewed journals, magazines, books, databases and publishing services to the chemical science community more than doubled in output in the last three years. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) editorial director James Milne said: "This marks a significant landmark for the RSC Publishing Platform. Delivering the millionth record, a paper published in the journal Nanoscale, demonstrates not only the significance of the RSC in terms of disseminating high-quality research content worldwide but also with many millions of article downloads each year, the value researchers place on being able to access this content through our new publishing platform." = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = In the last four years RSC Publishing has gone from being the fifth largest publisher in chemistry to challenging Wiley in third place. For more information about this growth, please visit <http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2011/Million.asp> For more information on the one millionth publication*, please visit Controlled assembly of plasmonic colloidal nanoparticle clusters <http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2011/NR/C0NR00804D> * This article is available as free content from RSC Publishing. If you have an IP address registered with us, you will automatically access or if you have registered for a RSC Publishing Platform personal account and are logged in, you will be able to download the PDF. If you would be interested in receiving any RSC Publishing Platform training, please reply to this email and I would be delighted to organise this for you. Kind regards Louise Louise Peck, Library Marketing Specialist Royal Society of Chemistry, Thomas Graham House, Science Park, Cambridge, CB4 0WF, UK Tel: +44 (0) 1223 432669, Fax: +44 (0) 1223 420247 www.rsc.org/publishing peckl@rsc.org

Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Library Database 
Licensing Practices, ISBN 157440-160-2.  The 115-page report looks 
closely at how 70 academic, special and public libraries in the United 
States, the UK, continental Europe, Canada, and Australia plan their 
database licensing practices. The report also covers the impact of 
digital repositories and open access publishing on database licensing.  
Among the many issues covered: database licensing volume, use of 
consortiums, consortium development plans, satisfaction levels with the 
coverage of podcasts, video, listservs, blogs and wikis in full text 
databases, spending levels on various types of content  such as 
electronic journals, article databases and directories perceptions of 
price increases for various types of subject matter, legal disputes 
between publishers and libraries, contract language, impact of mobile 
computing and other issues. Data is broken out by size and type of 
library. 

Just a few of the study’s many findings are that: 

•	The libraries in the sample spent a mean of $1.259 million 
USA for content licensed in electronic or joint electronic print format in 
2010.

•	Libraries in the sample were more interested in seeing videos 
and podcasts indexed in databases than listservs, wikis, blogs or other 
cybermaterials.

•	Consortium contracts account for a mean of 43.72% of 
libraries' total licenses for electronic content.  

•	17% of higher education libraries in the sample have paid a 
journal processing fee for an author.

•	Prices for journals and market research rose the most in the 
past year.

•	Libraries in the sample required a mean of 7.74 hours of legal 
assistance in contract disputes though the range was 0 to 200 hours.

•	Less than 10% of higher education libraries use e-Book 
lending services, and all were very large libraries.

•	Nearly 43% of libraries with annual licensed electronic content 
spending of greater than $1.2 million annually track patron use of open 
access journals.

•	Digital repositories now account for 17% of the journal 
articles obtained when libraries need an article that is not in their own 
collection.

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