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Market Research Reports for Libraries, Universities, and Legal Publishers

Survey of Academic Library Strategy for Licensing Artificial Intelligence Applications — report cover

Survey of Academic Library Strategy for Licensing Artificial Intelligence Applications


The study examines how academic libraries are approaching the licensing of AI applications. The findings show a market still very much in transitio...
Survey of Computer Science Faculty: Use of Artificial Intelligence — report cover

Survey of Computer Science Faculty: Use of Artificial Intelligence


This study that explores how computer science faculty across the United States are adopting and utilizing AI tools in their research, teaching, and...
Survey of Library Science Faculty: Use of Artificial Intelligence Prompts — report cover

Survey of Library Science Faculty: Use of Artificial Intelligence Prompts


This comprehensive study provides an in-depth look at how library science faculty are engaging with AI prompt libraries, purchasing and sharing pro...
Survey of Library Science Faculty: Contributions of Content to AI Models — report cover

Survey of Library Science Faculty: Contributions of Content to AI Models


The Survey of Library Science Faculty: Contributions of Content to AI Models is the first systematic look at how library science faculty are contri...
Survey of Academic Library Leadership 2025, Policy on Podcasts — report cover

Survey of Academic Library Leadership 2025, Policy on Podcasts


The study is based on interviews with 51 academic library directors and other upper management officials in college and academic libraries, predomi...
Survey of Academic Library Leadership 2025, Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence — report cover

Survey of Academic Library Leadership 2025, Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence


This report looks at how academic library directors and other leading officials are using and plan to use generative artificial intelligence in the...
Survey of US Higher Education Faculty 2023, Use of Geographic Information — report cover

Survey of US Higher Education Faculty 2023, Use of Geographic Information


This study gives highly specific information on who, how much and how faculty are using many different geographic information sources including but...
Survey of US Higher Education Faculty 2023, Use of Academic Libraries Other Than One’s Own — report cover

Survey of US Higher Education Faculty 2023, Use of Academic Libraries Other Than One’s Own


This study looks at how often academics use the libraries of other institutions, and in general how aware are scholars about arrangements allowing ...
Survey of US Higher Education Faculty 2023, Requesting the Library to Purchase New Materials — report cover

Survey of US Higher Education Faculty 2023, Requesting the Library to Purchase New Materials


This 73-page report gives extensive and detailed data on who, how often, and for what kinds of materials, do faculty request that their academic li...
Academic Library Use of Ebooks, 2022 Edition — report cover

Academic Library Use of Ebooks, 2022 Edition


This study looks closely at the plans of 28 academic libraries for their eBook collections, detailing spending from 2019-20, 2020-21 and the 2021-2...
Survey of Academic Library Plans for the Print Materials Collection, 2022 Edition — report cover

Survey of Academic Library Plans for the Print Materials Collection, 2022 Edition


This report gives detailed data and commentary from 33 academic libraries about their plans for their print materials, with specific data on books,...
Survey of Academic & Medical Library Plans for the Health Sciences Journals Collection — report cover

Survey of Academic & Medical Library Plans for the Health Sciences Journals Collection


This study looks closely at the plans of 16 academic and medical libraries for their collection of health sciences journals, examining issues such ...
International Survey of Research University Faculty, Integrating Digital Content into Online Classes — report cover

International Survey of Research University Faculty, Integrating Digital Content into Online Classes


This survey examines how research university faculty integrated digital content into online classes during terms affected by the COVID-19 pandemic....
Survey of Academic & Research Library Plans for Ala Carte Purchases of Scholarly Journal Articles — report cover

Survey of Academic & Research Library Plans for Ala Carte Purchases of Scholarly Journal Articles


This study presents data from 27 academic and research libraries about how they obtain journal articles when they lack a subscription to the needed...
Survey of Academic & Research Library Plans for Journal Subscriptions Cancellations — report cover

Survey of Academic & Research Library Plans for Journal Subscriptions Cancellations


This study looks closely at academic and research library plans for their scholarly journal subscriptions.  These subscriptions are the heart of a ...
Survey of Academic Library Use of Open Access Materials — report cover

Survey of Academic Library Use of Open Access Materials


This survey studies how colleges and universities use open access resources as a supplement to or replacement for academic journals and other mater...
Survey of Academic Library Leadership: Outlook for Materials Expenditures, 2020-21 — report cover

Survey of Academic Library Leadership: Outlook for Materials Expenditures, 2020-21


This report looks closely at the impact of the COVD-19 epidemic on academic library spending plans for books, eBooks, online databases, academic jo...
Survey of Academic Library Leadership: Content Licensing Contract Review Policies — report cover

Survey of Academic Library Leadership: Content Licensing Contract Review Policies


The report investigates how academic libraries are handling contract review for content licenses.  The study helps its readers answer questions suc...
Profiles of Developing, Managing & Digitizing Religious Studies Collections — report cover

Profiles of Developing, Managing & Digitizing Religious Studies Collections


This study profiles the efforts of five organizations to develop their religious studies collections.  Leading scholars and collection curators exp...
Survey of Academic Library Leadership: Licensing Electronic Database Content — report cover

Survey of Academic Library Leadership: Licensing Electronic Database Content


This study – based on data and commentary from 80 academic library deans and directors --  helps its readers to answer questions such as: what data...
Survey of Academic Library Leadership: Level of Support for Open Access Initiatives — report cover

Survey of Academic Library Leadership: Level of Support for Open Access Initiatives


This 61-page report looks closely at academic library activity to support open access.  The study gives highly precise data on librarian perception...
Survey of Academic Library Open Access Publication Fee Pay Practices — report cover

Survey of Academic Library Open Access Publication Fee Pay Practices


This report presents data from 73 academic libraries about their open access publication fee payment practices.  The 53-page study enables its end ...
Profiles of Academic Library Management of Digital Image Collections — report cover

Profiles of Academic Library Management of Digital Image Collections


This 59-page study looks closely at how academic and other research libraries develop, archive, manage, distribute and assess their digital image c...
Survey of Academic Library Leadership, Print Book Collection Plans & Practices — report cover

Survey of Academic Library Leadership, Print Book Collection Plans & Practices


The 57-page study presents data from a survey of 96 North American academic library directors, deans and university librarians about their current ...
Survey of Academic Library Leadership: Plans for eBooks — report cover

Survey of Academic Library Leadership: Plans for eBooks


The 77-page study presents data from a survey of 96 North American academic library directors, deans and university librarians about their plans fo...
Visual Arts Library Use of Amazon — report cover

Visual Arts Library Use of Amazon


The study presents data from 18 visual arts libraries from universities, galleries and museums, focusing on their use of Amazon for purchases of bo...
Profiles of Academic Library Efforts in Open Education — report cover

Profiles of Academic Library Efforts in Open Education


The study profiles the efforts of seven academic libraries to foster the use of and/or development of open access education materials, particularly...
Survey of Academic Library Leadership: Trends in Sharing Costs of Specialized Content & Services with Academic Departments — report cover

Survey of Academic Library Leadership: Trends in Sharing Costs of Specialized Content & Services with Academic Departments


The report looks closely at the extent and kinds of cooperative arrangements between academic libraries and academic departments to pay for special...
Survey of Academic Library Leadership: Trends in Sharing Costs of Specialized Content & Services with Academic Departments — report cover

Survey of Academic Library Leadership: Trends in Sharing Costs of Specialized Content & Services with Academic Departments


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Survey of Academic Library Upper Management: View of Library Role in Providing Textbooks — report cover

Survey of Academic Library Upper Management: View of Library Role in Providing Textbooks


The report presents data and commentary about the library role in textbook provision from a survey of 84 high level academic library executives dra...
Academic Library Use of Amazon — report cover

Academic Library Use of Amazon


This 100-page study presents data from 68 academic libraries about their purchases from Amazon, focusing particularly on print books, but covering ...
Profiles of Research University Institutional Digital Repositories — report cover

Profiles of Research University Institutional Digital Repositories


This study profiles the efforts of six renown research universities to develop and manage their institutional digital repositories.  The institutio...
Survey of American College Students: Use of the Academic Library eBook Collection — report cover

Survey of American College Students: Use of the Academic Library eBook Collection


The study presents data from a survey of 1099 students at 4-year colleges and universities in the USA about their use of the library eBook collecti...
Survey of American College Students: Use of Academic Library Resources, 2018 — report cover

Survey of American College Students: Use of Academic Library Resources, 2018


This major study of how American college students use their academic libraries presents data from a representative sample of 1,100 college students...
Survey of Academic Library Plans for the Print Materials Collection, 2018 Edition — report cover

Survey of Academic Library Plans for the Print Materials Collection, 2018 Edition


This report, based on data from 49 colleges and universities in the USA and Canada, looks closely at academic library plans for print versions of j...
Survey of the Academic Library Role in the Use of Open Access Textbooks and Other Open Access Educational Materials — report cover

Survey of the Academic Library Role in the Use of Open Access Textbooks and Other Open Access Educational Materials


This seminal study presents data from 50 colleges and universities about their academic library policies in providing open access textbooks and oth...
International Research Library Benchmarks, 2017 Edition — report cover

International Research Library Benchmarks, 2017 Edition


This 227-page report presents a range of data and commentary about the operations and plans of 30 corporate, legal, government and academic researc...
International Survey of Research University Faculty: Use of Academic Journals — report cover

International Survey of Research University Faculty: Use of Academic Journals


This 67-page study presents data from a survey of 512 academics from 55 research universities in the USA, Canada, Australia, Ireland and the United...
International Survey of Research University Faculty: Use of eBooks — report cover

International Survey of Research University Faculty: Use of eBooks


The 118-page survey of more than 500 faculty looks closely at research university faculty attitudes towards eBooks, helping to answer questions suc...
International Survey of Research University Faculty: Use of Institutional Digital Repositories — report cover

International Survey of Research University Faculty: Use of Institutional Digital Repositories


The study presents data about use of institutional digital repositories by more than 500 faculty at 55 research universities from the United States...
Academic Library Use of eBooks 2017 Edition — report cover

Academic Library Use of eBooks 2017 Edition


The study looks closely at how 41 academic libraries are using eBooks. It presents detailed data on eBook spending in 2015, 2016 and projected to 2...
Survey of Academic Library Database Licensing Practices, 2016-17 — report cover

Survey of Academic Library Database Licensing Practices, 2016-17


This international study presents data from 29 colleges and universities about their database licensing practices, including spending data on eBook...
Survey of Academic Library Video Content Provision Practices — report cover

Survey of Academic Library Video Content Provision Practices


The study looks at how 31 academic libraries provide video content to traditional and online classes and for other academic and scholarly purposes....
Librarian Contract Negotiating Skills Benchmarks — report cover

Librarian Contract Negotiating Skills Benchmarks


The study presents data from 83 academic, medical, legal, corporate and public libraries and library consortia about how they train their librarian...
Bundled Journals Package Contract Negotiations Benchmarks — report cover

Bundled Journals Package Contract Negotiations Benchmarks


The study presents data from 37 libraries and consortia, predominantly research university libraries, about their experiences in negotiating bundle...
International Survey of Academic & Research Library Data Curation Practices, 2016-17 Edition — report cover

International Survey of Academic & Research Library Data Curation Practices, 2016-17 Edition


We surveyed college and university and other research libraries in the United Kingdom and United States to find out more about their approach to da...
International Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories, 2016 Edition — report cover

International Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories, 2016 Edition


The study presents data  and commentary from 37 institutional digital repositories worldwide including but not limited to: Johns Hopkins University...
Community College Library Benchmarks 04/2016 — report cover

Community College Library Benchmarks 04/2016


The report presents detailed data and commentary on the budgetary and educational priorities of community colleges in the United States. The study ...
Visual Arts Library Plans for the Print Materials Collection 04/2016 — report cover

Visual Arts Library Plans for the Print Materials Collection 04/2016


This study looks at how major art, architecture and other visual arts libraries are making plans for their print materials collections, including b...
Survey of Academic Library Efforts to Enhance Faculty Cooperation with Open Access 08/2015 — report cover

Survey of Academic Library Efforts to Enhance Faculty Cooperation with Open Access 08/2015


The study presents data from 50 mostly research oriented colleges and universities about how their academic libraries approach faculty and administ...
Survey of Academic Library Plans for the Print Book Collection 07/2015 — report cover

Survey of Academic Library Plans for the Print Book Collection 07/2015


The study looks at the plans of 53 college and university libraries for their print book collections.  The reports helps its readers to answer ques...
Patent Information Use Benchmarks 03/2015 — report cover

Patent Information Use Benchmarks 03/2015


This 82-page report presents data from a survey of three populations of patent information users: major law firms, major companies, and research–or...
International Research Library Benchmarks 2015 Edition — report cover

International Research Library Benchmarks 2015 Edition


The study closely compares the policies of 23 research libraries predominantly from the USA, but also from Canada, Germany and the UK.  The intensi...
International Research Library Benchmarks 2015 Edition — report cover

International Research Library Benchmarks 2015 Edition


 The study closely compares the policies of 23 research libraries predominantly from the USA, but also from Canada, Germany and the UK.  The intens...
International Benchmarks for Academic Library Use of Bibliometrics 11/2014 — report cover

International Benchmarks for Academic Library Use of Bibliometrics 11/2014


The study presents data from 30 college and university libraries in the USA, the UK, Canada, Germany, Ireland and other countries, about their use ...
The Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices, 2014-15 Edition — report cover

The Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices, 2014-15 Edition


This international report focuses particularly on the database licensing practices of research libraries with data presented separately for legal, ...
Academic Library Use of eBooks 09/2014 — report cover

Academic Library Use of eBooks 09/2014


This 165-page international study looks closely at how academic libraries are using eBooks. It helps librarians to answer questions such as: how fa...
Public Library Use of eBooks 09/2014 — report cover

Public Library Use of eBooks 09/2014


This study gives highly detailed data on the eBook purchasing and use habits of a sample of 70 public libraries. The survey helps its readers to an...
International Survey of Academic Library Data Curation Practices, 2014-15 Edition — report cover

International Survey of Academic Library Data Curation Practices, 2014-15 Edition


This 100+ page report looks closely at the data curation and management practices of 17 colleges and universitie...
The Survey of Academic Libraries, 2014-15 Edition — report cover

The Survey of Academic Libraries, 2014-15 Edition


The Survey of Academic Libraries, 2014-15 Edition looks closely at key benchmarks for academic libraries in area...
Institutional Digital Repository Benchmarks, 2014 Edition — report cover

Institutional Digital Repository Benchmarks, 2014 Edition


This 135-page international study of the digital repositories of universities and other research oriented organiz...
The Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices, 2013 Edition — report cover

The Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices, 2013 Edition


The study looks closely at the database licensing practices of major academic and research libraries, examining ...
International Survey of Academic Library Data Curation Practices 06/2013 — report cover

International Survey of Academic Library Data Curation Practices 06/2013


This survey looks closely at the data curation practices of a sample of research-oriented universities largely from...
Institutional Digital Repository Benchmarks, 2013 Edition — report cover

Institutional Digital Repository Benchmarks, 2013 Edition


This 117-page study presents data from 33 institutions, mostly universities and other colleges, about their insti...
Library Use of eBooks, 2013 Edition — report cover

Library Use of eBooks, 2013 Edition


This report looks closely at how libraries use eBooks. It is based on a survey of 68 academic, public, corporate, legal and other special libraries...
The Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories, 2012-13 Edition — report cover

The Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories, 2012-13 Edition


This 227-page study explores the habits and practices of 38 digital repositories from a collection of universities and non-higher education institu...
The Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices, 2012 Edition — report cover

The Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices, 2012 Edition


This 116-page report studies the database licensing practices of 60 academic, public, corporate, and law libraries from across the globe, represent...
Survey of Academic Libraries, 2012-13 Edition — report cover

Survey of Academic Libraries, 2012-13 Edition


This report presents data from 110 American academic libraries about the state of their strategic thinking on a myriad of issues including: use of ...
Survey of Scholarly Journal Licensing & Acquisition Practices, 2012 Edition — report cover

Survey of Scholarly Journal Licensing & Acquisition Practices, 2012 Edition


This 106-page report examines the scholarly journal licensing and acquisition practices of academic and special ...
Library Use of eBooks, 2012 Edition — report cover

Library Use of eBooks, 2012 Edition


This report looks closely at the eBook purchasing and deployment practices of libraries. The study presents deta...
Library Use of Video & Audio 09/2011 — report cover

Library Use of Video & Audio 09/2011


This study looks closely at how libraries develop and use their video and audio collections. The study presents detailed data on the price discount...
The Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories, 2011 Edition — report cover

The Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories, 2011 Edition


The 225-page report looks closely at how 60+ academic and special libraries and other select institutions in the United States, the UK, continental...
The Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices 2011 Edition — report cover

The Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices 2011 Edition


This report looks closely at database licensing issues in the USA, Australia, continental Europe, the UK and other countries and areas.  The study ...
Library Use of eBooks, 2011 Edition — report cover

Library Use of eBooks, 2011 Edition


The report presents 145 pages of data and commentary on a broad range eBook issues, including: spending on eBooks in 2010 and anticipated spending ...
The Survey of Academic Libraries, 2010-11 Edition — report cover

The Survey of Academic Libraries, 2010-11 Edition


The report presents more than 245 pages of data and commentary on a broad range of academic library issues including: spending on books, ebooks, jo...
The Survey of Academic Libraries, 2008-09 Edition — report cover

The Survey of Academic Libraries, 2008-09 Edition


This latest edition of The Survey of Academic Libraries presents data from more than 75 American and Canadian academic libraries.  Data are broken ...
The Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices 06/2010 — report cover

The Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices 06/2010


The study presents data from 90 libraries – corporate, legal, college, public, state, and non-profit libraries – about their database licensing pra...

Higher Education Management

Report coverage in this topic area includes: marketing, enrollment and public relations; advancement and fundraising; international and domestic student services; retention and assessment; technology management, facilities managment, and much more.

Higher Education Management category

Law Firm and Law Library Management

Reports in this area can be roughly grouped into 4 types: surveys of law libraries, surveys of attorneys in major law firms, surveys of management personnel in major law firms, and surveys of law school faculty and administrators.

Law Firm and Law Library Management category

Libraries

Subject areas covered include: content management, materials purchasing, facilities management, digitization, purchasing and negotiations, open access and digital repositories, personnel management and training, budgeting, fundraising and much more.

Libraries category
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