The University of Texas
Libraries.
Statistical Overview of the Library Collections.
Top Ranked Research Libraries 2006
|
|
2006 Rank |
Total Library Expenditures |
Salaries |
Materials expenditures |
Staff |
ARL Index |
|
Harvard |
1 |
$105,809,085 |
$36,580,197 |
$28,138,927 |
1,134 |
5.83 |
|
Yale |
2 |
$74,938,119 |
$17,565,125 |
$33,913,555 |
635 |
3.71 |
|
Columbia |
3 |
$56,938,255 |
$19,000,096 |
$21,017,791 |
558 |
2.39 |
|
Toronto |
4 |
$57,610,752 |
$12,495,097 |
$21,450,043 |
539 |
2.32 |
|
Berkeley |
5 |
$56,186,972 |
$18,499,738 |
$17,453,180 |
421 |
2.26 |
|
UCLA |
6 |
$50,919,689 |
$11,778,277 |
$15,158,149 |
471 |
1.77 |
|
Michigan |
7 |
$49,053,402 |
$11,085,528 |
$20,669,495 |
468 |
1.75 |
|
Penn State |
8 |
$48,580,052 |
$8,812,659 |
$18,088,877 |
536 |
1.63 |
|
Texas |
9 |
$41,585,820 |
$8,471,146 |
$16,035,009 |
429 |
1.16 |
|
Cornell |
10 |
$42,156,480 |
$7,942,102 |
$14,381,679 |
438 |
1.15 |
* Research library rankings
are published each year under the Almanac edition of The Chronicle Of Higher
Education. This year they appeared
during August 2007. Library
statistics for Texas include The University Libraries, The Ransom Center, the
Law Library, and the Center for American History. Rankings are based on the ARL Membership Criteria Index (http://www.arl.org/stats/factor.html)
which is used to determine membership eligibility for the Association of
Research Libraries.
Top Ten Research Libraries by category 2006
|
Volumes |
Volumes added |
Serial expenditures |
Expenditures on electronic
material |
|
15,826,570 Harvard |
292,658 Harvard |
$12,831,465 Columbia |
$9,823,592 Penn State |
|
12,368,757 Yale |
255,975 Alberta |
$12,249,954 Penn State |
$7,704,688 Columbia |
|
10,536,868 Toronto |
249,613 Yale |
$11,056,788 Chicago |
$7,239,964 Cincinnati |
|
10,524,935 Illinois |
216,531 Toronto |
$10,900,902 New York |
$7,193,666 Texas A&M |
|
10,094,417 Berkeley |
208,122 Chicago |
$10,010,687 Toronto |
$7,006,150 Alberta |
|
9,455,312 Columbia |
189,507 Columbia |
$10,005,808 Pennsylvania |
$6,723,530 British Columbia |
|
9,022,363 Texas |
186,987 Berkeley |
$9,911,522 Harvard |
$6,688,267 New York |
|
8,273,050 Michigan |
176,998 Michigan |
$9,899,713 British Columbia |
$6,490,250 Johns Hopkins |
|
8,157,182 UCLA |
159,765 NC State |
$9,859,444 Minnesota |
$6,038,544 Texas |
|
8,015,081 Wisconsin |
158,914 Illinois |
$9,818,882 Washington |
$6,021,047 Chicago |
|
|
|
|
|
149,398
Texas A&M $9,385,580
Texas A&M |
|
|
|
127,845
Texas $8,610,285
Texas |
|
|
|
Electronic
Resources, 2006 |
|
E-books - 150,000 recently published e-books,
300,000+ out-of-copyright e-books
E-journals
(paid) - 19,056 E-Journals
(Open Access) – 7,542 E-Journals
in full-text databases - 29,850 Library
Web pages viewed per day – 278,911 No.
of Web-based library databases - 497 Articles
in the Science Direct (Elsevier) database- 8.5 million |
Research Services. The University
of Texas Libraries. 9/2007
The University of Texas
Libraries.
Statistical Overview of the Library CollectionsÉ
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Composite ARL Index
Ranking of Texas Among all 123 North American Research Libraries, 1990-2006. |
Library Materials
Expenditures: Ranking of Texas Among all 123 North American Research
Libraries, 1990-2006. |
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*Association of Research Libraries Statistics. Library statistics for Texas include The University Libraries, The Ransom Center, the Law Library, and the Center for American History.
Collection Use Examples
|
Circulation - 1,294,426 Library Web site - 101,802,515 Academic Search Premier
article downloads (and related Ebsco databases) – 1,502,232 Academic Onefile article
downloads (and related Gale databases) – 1,419,999 Science
Direct (Elsevier journals) articles downloads – 433,792 Academic
Universe (Lexis Nexis) articles read – 517,880 JSTOR
articles read – 353,278 Netlibrary e-books read
– 124,714 |
Article Downloads by Journal Title from Academic Search Premier,
Science Direct & JSTOR
|
Academic Search Premier USA Today -
52,428 Economist – 34,385 Harvard Business Review – 22,467 Newsweek – 19,728 Time – 18,975 Advertising Age – 18,226 Library Journal – 18,058 Billboard – 16,526 U.S. News and World
Report – 14,746 |
Science Direct Tetrahedron - 10,335 Cell – 9,514 Journal of Molecular
Biology – 5,869 Current Biology – 4,298 Polymer Contents – 3,885 Social Science &
Medicine – 3,192 Intl Journal of
Pharmaceutics – 2,653 Thin Solid Films – 2,571 Neuroscience – 2,409 |
JSTOR Science – 6,969 Am. Political Science
Review – 4,475 American Anthropologist – 4,295 American Historical
Review – 4,259 Am. Sociological Review – 4,078 American Economic Review – 3,636 J. of Family and Marriage – 3,287 American Jnl. of
Sociology – 2,919 Musical Times – 2,683 |
University of Texas Libraries Annual Journal Subscription Price
Examples:
|
Nuclear Physics A & B Journal of Photochemistry
and Photobiology Brain Research Health Policy |
$25,511 (UT System-wide
subscription funded by UT-Austin )* $9,574 (UT System-wide
subscription funded by UT-Dallas)* $20,304 (UT System-wide
subscription funded by UTHSC, S. A.)* $1,778 (UT- System-wide
subscription funded by UT-Arlington)* |
* The UT System libraries have
been reducing costs through cooperative consortia activities since 1995.
University of Texas Libraries Serials Cancellation Projects
|
1991/92 1993 1996 2001 2002 2003 2005 |
1,485 subscriptions
cancelled 1,933 subscriptions
cancelled 605 subscriptions cancelled 1,095 subscriptions
cancelled* 274 subscriptions cancelled* 555 subscriptions cancelled 604 subscriptions cancelled |
$153 (national average price of a research journal) $188 (national average price of a research journal) $223 (national average price of a research journal) $283 (national average price of a research journal) $296 (national average price of a research journal) $283 (national average price of a research journal) $258 (national average price of a research journal) |
*2001/2002/2005 cancellations
included only duplicated titles
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