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BOSTON cont.
19 Relevant COUNTER reports have been gathered from as many publishers and platforms as
possible, reporting use of journal frontlists, backfiles and archives, and aggregated databases
and indexes.
BOSTON COLLEGE
All figures are as of 05/31/2014.
Library branches included: Bapst Library, Burns Library, Educational Resource Center, Social
Work Library, Theology and Ministry Library.
1 Title count includes the BC Law Library as well as all branch libraries.
10 Includes tuition remission, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, TIAA-CREF and
Fidelity retirement plans, medical insurance, dental insurance, adoption benefit, sick leave,
vacation time, and paid holidays.
11 Editor’s Note: Published figure reflects the official designated percent for the Law Library, as
this is the maximum value entered for this question.
12 List price of databases provided to us by the State of MA.
16.a Both the Social Work Library and the Educational Resource Center indicated that their figures
were based on sampling, while O’Neill, Theology and Ministry, Bapst, and Burns Libraries were
not based on sampling.
19 Many more platforms added DB1 Reports in 2014.
20 Service was not promoted this year, and is not easily identified on the website.
23 Includes law degrees awarded.
25 Report for 2012–2013 mistakenly counted law faculty twice. The correct figure was 761, not 814.
26–28 Includes law students.
29 No information provided regarding the decline in part-time graduate students.
BRIGHAM YOUNG
All figures are as of 12/31/2013.
4 Several thousand e-book records were accidentally loaded into our catalog twice. We corrected
this error which makes it appear that our e-book numbers went down over the past year when,
in fact, they increased slightly.
7.c Last year’s figure for this item inadvertently omitted Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan. This
should have resulted in a figure of 265,766 for the Main Library, and when added to the Law
figure of the same, which was 8,426, would give a total for the ARL Publication of 274,192. Hence
the change from last year to this year would have been only 9%.
11 Editor’s Note: Published figure reflects the official designated percent for the Law Library, as
this is the maximum value entered for this question.
18, 19 BYU added two significant databases of full-text journals in 2013, as well as obtained stats from
some databases that did not previously report them.
20 BYU integrated the EBSCO API into BYU’s discovery tool, which uses federated searching to
return results.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
All figures are as of 03/31/2014.
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