a methodology for systematically assessing the cost of journal subscriptions. The authors of the paper established ratios comparing the list costs of journal articles as advertised by publishers against the cost per article of journal articles available in aggregated collections in library databases.
The study may be helpful for those librarians who seek to supplement qualitative information and other quantitative data, such as usage statistics, in order to demonstrate the library's rationale for providing journal access either by purchasing articles directly from a publisher as needed or by continuing to subscribe to an aggregating database.
The results of the study indicated that the ratios for Mean Cost/Package Subscription Price (MC/PSP), Median Cost/Package Subscription Price (MED/PSP) could be used in evaluating journal collections.
Ye Mun, Heidi Card, Kathaleen McCormick, Kristy White, Tracie Ballock & Robert Behary (2022) Ratios for Evaluating Full-Text Journal Article Access: A Quantitative Study, The Serials Librarian, DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2022.2139331