Re: FW: R&D spending and library spending

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btopenworld.com>]

I also have a question about ARL statistics, which I have always 
found difficult to interpret. It is about how a subscription to a 
serial is defined. UK figures I have seen define subscription as 
providing access to which means that any Big Deal significantly 
inceases the number of subscription. Could some expert person 
help?

Anthony

----- Original Message -----
From: "JOHANNES VELTEROP" <velteropvonleyden@btinternet.com>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: FW: R&D spending and library spending

> Dear Chuck,
>
> Interesting figures, and I'm pleased I was wrong with regard to
> the ARL serials spending increases in the period of 1986-2001.
>
> However, looking at the more recent period of 1998-2003, for
> which I quoted the R&D spending increases, the ARL figures show
> something that is perhaps a bit puzzling.
>
> R&D spending went up by an average of 9.15% each year; ARL
> serials spending by an average of 7.16% each year; Average unit
> price for serials went up by an average of just under 1% each
> year; And the number of serials subscribed to by an average of 5%
> each year.
>
> Now, where has the 'serials crisis' gone (at least for the ARL)?
>
> Jan Velterop
>
> PS. Toby Green is absolutely right to point out that these
> figures, and the original graph that makes the comparison with
> general price indices, are of very limited value if they aren't
> taking global funding, spending, inflation, cost developments et
> cetera into account.
>
> "Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu> wrote:
>
>> http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind04/append/c5/at05-02.xls
>> Science & Engineering Indicators, 2004
>>
>> Support for Academic R&D: current dollars.
>>
>> 1986 $10,928 (in millions of dollars)
>> 2001 $32,723 (in millions of dollars)
>> Ratio: 2001/1986 2.986
>>
>> http://www.arl.org/stats/arlstat/04pub/04intro.html
>> ARL Average library expenditures for serials
>>
>> 1986 $1,496,775
>> 2001 $4,939,225
>> Ratio 2001/1986 3.29
>>
>> I think this means ARL libraries average expenditures for
>> serials have been running ahead of Academic R&D dollar
>> increases.
>>
>> Chuck Hamaker
>> Associate University Librarian Collections and
>> Technical Services
>> Atkins Library
>> University of North Carolina Charlotte
>> Charlotte, NC 28223
>> phone 704 687-2825