Footnotes · 115
Question
Number
Footnote
ROCHESTER, cont.
14.a 110 presentations based on sampling.
15.a 2,500 participants based on sampling.
16 Higher number of reference transactions due in part to changes in how they are tracked.
16.a 20,135 transactions based on sampling.
18 Full-text article requests from journals subscribed to or provided by EBSCO, BMJ, MA Liebert, Ovid,
ACS, Cambridge, Highwire, IEEE, IOP, JSTOR, OUP, Project Muse, Sage, ScienceDirect, Springer, and
Wiley.
19 Regular searches for databases provided by Gale Cengage, CSA Illumina, ProQuest, EBSCOhost,
including Wilson, and ISI Web of Knowledge.
20 These numbers represent MetaLib federated searches for the first 2 months of the year. We then
implemented Summon, a discovery service that generated 136,745 searches for the remainder of the
year.
RUTGERS
Library branches included: Summary includes Newark Law library and services to a non-Rutgers
medical school and campuses in Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick.
6 Increase in operating expenditures due to major library renovations and upgrades to furniture,
shelving, and technology infrastructure (wireless, servers, etc).
7.b OCLC charges not included here but in question 9 (other operating expenditures) paid from non-
book funds.
7.c Includes binding ($35,440) and shipping/service fees ($65,119). Document delivery /interlibrary
loan not included here but in question 9 (other operating expenditures) paid from non-book funds.
Membership for the purpose of publications not included here but in question 7b (ongoing resource
purchases).
10 Fringe benefits paid by staff for 8a [professional staff] and 8b [support staff] at rate of 36.9%.
18 Based on journal packages. Unable to report all database full-text article requests -this number is not
reported by vendors consistently.
20 Based on statistics from the federated search system. Not all vendors are release 4 compliant.
Statistics include COUNTER and non-COUNTER reportings.
21 Decrease due to increased availability of electronic journals, increased Internet access to scholarly
documents, lending fewer monographs because of a PALCI migration from a URSA platform to the
Relais platform, and the fact that Imaging Services received fewer article lending requests due to a
RAPID system glitch.
22 Increase due to growing importance of research in undergraduate education, decrease in budgets
for acquiring new journals and monographs, and increase in publicizing borrowing services and
making them more user-friendly.
SASKATCHEWAN
All figures are as of 04/30/2012.
Library branches included: Includes Education, Engineering, Murray, Natural Sciences, and
Veterinary Medicine libraries.
Library branches NOT included: Theological libraries on campus are not part of the library system.
Data from Law and Health Sciences libraries are also included in the figures reported.
1–2 Based on fiscal year May 1, 2011- April 30, 2012.
Question
Number
Footnote
ROCHESTER, cont.
14.a 110 presentations based on sampling.
15.a 2,500 participants based on sampling.
16 Higher number of reference transactions due in part to changes in how they are tracked.
16.a 20,135 transactions based on sampling.
18 Full-text article requests from journals subscribed to or provided by EBSCO, BMJ, MA Liebert, Ovid,
ACS, Cambridge, Highwire, IEEE, IOP, JSTOR, OUP, Project Muse, Sage, ScienceDirect, Springer, and
Wiley.
19 Regular searches for databases provided by Gale Cengage, CSA Illumina, ProQuest, EBSCOhost,
including Wilson, and ISI Web of Knowledge.
20 These numbers represent MetaLib federated searches for the first 2 months of the year. We then
implemented Summon, a discovery service that generated 136,745 searches for the remainder of the
year.
RUTGERS
Library branches included: Summary includes Newark Law library and services to a non-Rutgers
medical school and campuses in Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick.
6 Increase in operating expenditures due to major library renovations and upgrades to furniture,
shelving, and technology infrastructure (wireless, servers, etc).
7.b OCLC charges not included here but in question 9 (other operating expenditures) paid from non-
book funds.
7.c Includes binding ($35,440) and shipping/service fees ($65,119). Document delivery /interlibrary
loan not included here but in question 9 (other operating expenditures) paid from non-book funds.
Membership for the purpose of publications not included here but in question 7b (ongoing resource
purchases).
10 Fringe benefits paid by staff for 8a [professional staff] and 8b [support staff] at rate of 36.9%.
18 Based on journal packages. Unable to report all database full-text article requests -this number is not
reported by vendors consistently.
20 Based on statistics from the federated search system. Not all vendors are release 4 compliant.
Statistics include COUNTER and non-COUNTER reportings.
21 Decrease due to increased availability of electronic journals, increased Internet access to scholarly
documents, lending fewer monographs because of a PALCI migration from a URSA platform to the
Relais platform, and the fact that Imaging Services received fewer article lending requests due to a
RAPID system glitch.
22 Increase due to growing importance of research in undergraduate education, decrease in budgets
for acquiring new journals and monographs, and increase in publicizing borrowing services and
making them more user-friendly.
SASKATCHEWAN
All figures are as of 04/30/2012.
Library branches included: Includes Education, Engineering, Murray, Natural Sciences, and
Veterinary Medicine libraries.
Library branches NOT included: Theological libraries on campus are not part of the library system.
Data from Law and Health Sciences libraries are also included in the figures reported.
1–2 Based on fiscal year May 1, 2011- April 30, 2012.
