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Permalink Reply by Gulshan Kumar Pahwa on August 4, 2010 at 18:43

Mam, In my view, There is not any hard and fast rule or methods available for assessing the cost and benefits of periodicals. For assessing the cost and benefit, you have to go into the contents of that particular journal and also you have to go through impact factor of that journal. If the impact factor is high than that journal shall be beneficial for your library and if the impact factor is high than the cost will also be high.
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Permalink Reply by saba nasreen bano on August 4, 2010 at 19:22

sir thanks for reply
i know that application of this concept is new for libraries in india.basically its a concept of financial management.
can u give me the information about that person who have already worked on this topic
regards
saba

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Permalink Reply by E.SUTHANTHIRA DEVI on August 5, 2010 at 18:58

benefits of periodicals could be shown by getting acknowledgement of the users. the readers should write date , name and id card number in the attached paper with the periodicals. A plain paper should be attached with each and every day newspaper, magazines.... user tracking is provided by the publishers in online journals. hence we can analyse the beneficiaries. defenitely electronic form of periodicals is lesser cost than print version. the benefits are more in electronic forms. it serves multiple users at any number of time of viewing and also faster retieval of information possible. this is my opinion.

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Permalink Reply by saba nasreen bano on August 6, 2010 at 21:01

thanx for giving me valuable information

how can we get full stasistics of use of e-journals by the publishers

saba

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