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I. AT A GLANCE ................................................................................................................. 2
Introduction:.......................................................................................................................... 2
The Collection:...................................................................................................................... 2
Strengths and weaknesses: ............................................................................................ 3
Recommendations: ............................................................................................................. 3
II. IN DETAIL ..................................................................................................................... 4
Context:................................................................................................................................... 4
Strengths and weaknesses: ............................................................................................ 4
Recommendations: ............................................................................................................. 6
FIGURES (inserts)........................................................................................................... 7
1. Book collection: ............................................................................................................. 8
NOTES: .................................................................................................................................... 8
2. Journals by impact factor: ....................................................................................... 22
APPENDIX .......................................................................................................................... 25
I. AT A GLANCE
Introduction:
The Collection:
The areas chosen by Professor Perry for review include political science,
political philosophy, law, geography, public administration, government,
military science and international relations. The following portions of the
library collection are devoted to these areas:
Books
• 15% of the entire book collection
(10,707 volumes or 9,646 distinct titles out of a total of 72,700
volumes)
Journals
• 26% of library journals
(43 of 168 current individual journal titles)
• According to the ISI journal impact factor results1 for the fields of
Law, International Affairs and Political Science, the AUP Library has
access to 19 of the top 36 journals titles up to the current date
(available from individual or database subscriptions)
1
The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) publishes annual listings of impact factors of scientific journals,
based upon data extracted from the Science Citation Index (SCI). Within its limitations the ISI Journal Citation
Reports impact factor has become in recent years the main quantitative measure of a journal’s prestige or
importance in its field. The impact factor is based on the ratio of citations of the journal to the number of
articles published in it during a given year.
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Strengths and weaknesses:
Recommendations:
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II. IN DETAIL
Context:
Strengths
• One strength is a very good selection2 of periodical full-text
databases, especially for the Library’s size and budget. The main
full-text databases are: LexisNexis, JSTOR, CIAO, WilsonSelectPlus
and Academic Search Premier. The Library also has access to IPSA
(International Political Science Abstracts), an abstracts index.
LexisNexis is the premier law database and has all of the top impact
legal journals. JSTOR has an excellent scholarly collection with 28
titles that pertain to International and Comparative Politics, but
none of them include current issues. JSTOR titles run from the
original issue, if possible, up to 3-6 years ago. CIAO is a recently
acquired database for International Affairs which has course packs,
working papers, case studies, books and journals. It is reputed to
be the most comprehensive source for International Affairs.
WilsonSelectPlus and Academic Search Premier are two general
databases with over 930 titles between them that relate directly to
this Department. IPSA (International Political Science Abstracts) is
an excellent tool to further research in Political Science with 110,000
records from over 900 journals. Document delivery is available for
those citation and abstract databases for which the Library may not
have the full-text of the article but this does take extra time and
manpower.
2
This strength was determined after research based on US academic institutions such as Princeton, Harvard,
Columbia, etc.
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• Another strength is the librarians’ professional willingness and ability
to work on collection assessment as well as day to day collaboration
with faculty. Library faculty are under time constraints due to the
many duties they perform: serving the public through reference,
circulation desk duties, teaching, ordering and processing items for the
Library. Collection assessment and development are necessary tasks
which the Library faculty would like to perform more thoroughly with
each department but there is a lack of staff with time to undertake this
task. Collection analysis should be performed on a regular basis and
the librarians should be working much more closely with individuals in
the departments to perform better collection development. This will
take time from both the Library faculty and the faculty in each
department and it will be difficult to find the extra time.
Weaknesses:
• Given the fact that, in the past, we had a Department of International
Affairs, not all aspects of International and Comparative Politics were
considered for building the collection. The journals have especially
suffered and the Department needs to look, with the Library, at their
needs and reassess what journals are most important. The print
journal collection is not used as heavily as in the past. Students and
faculty mostly prefer full-text online products (especially
undergraduate students) therefore it would be wise to reassess all
print journal titles to see which ones are available online and what the
price impact would be for the budget. This is now done for each new
journal title ordered and needs to be done for each print journal title.
Titles ordered many years ago by professors that are still purchased by
the Library also need to be assessed as to their current need by the
Department.
• The topics chosen to study for the Department of International and
Comparative Politics in the book collection (10,707 volumes) comprise
15% of the entire collection (72,700 volumes) but only 2719 of those
were published since 1990. There are important books which are
older, but there are many older titles which need to be discarded from
the collection. The Library faculty and Department faculty need to
work together to decide which titles are still important to the collection
and which titles should be weeded. If historical research is conducted
often in these subject areas, older books may be of use in the Library.
There are two important reasons for weeding the collection and not
keeping every book ever purchased. First, the Library is in dire need
of space and second, the students find it difficult to know when to use
an older title and when not to do so. There are titles which would
have been recommended 30 years ago that now the professors would
consider a waste of time for the students to read. These need to be
eliminated from the collection.
• Remote access to databases will be easier when single-user
authentication is in place campus-wide. Currently, off campus access
to databases is handled with passwords which change. JSTOR and
LexisNexis do not allow password access and are not accessible from
off-campus at all.
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Recommendations:
• Before any general conclusion is drawn, it is important to know what
the Department’s priorities will be. Any information in this regard
will be important.
• Conduct a weeding process of old books that correspond to the
priorities of the International and Comparative Politics Department.
This process is to be conducted with the help of the Department
faculty and in close collaboration with Library faculty.
• Develop the AUP collection in International and Comparative Politics,
especially the field of political science, in close collaboration among
faculty and librarians within budget constraints.
• Consider databases which may be of interest at some time in the
future, for example: PAIS (Public Affairs Information Services) an
index which covers social sciences and public policy; AccessUN
which covers United Nations documents and publications; Polling the
Nations which has 500,000 questions from over 14,000 surveys
conducted in the US and 100 other countries. The need for any of
these would depend on the direction the Department will take in the
future.
• Focus on new sources of revenue, i.e. grants that may allow AUP to
enrich the strategic areas according to Departmental goals. Here are
a couple of suggestions/reminders.
o Attribute a fixed percentage of every grant to the
Department’s book budget.
o Grant money should not be used for standing orders,
database or journal subscriptions, these are to be covered by
sustainable University funds rather than occasional grants.
• Conduct a similar collection assessment study for all departments so
that the Library collection does not grow in one area and lag behind
in others.
• General funding recommendation: efforts should be pursued by all
departments, so that there is a balance in terms of the collection
development of the entire Library.
• Get help from one or several student grant recipients for further
assessments. The International and Comparative Politics
Department sent a student to work with us and it was invaluable.
• That for each discipline, at least one faculty member be closely
involved in collection evaluation and development. Each member of
the faculty needs to be involved in weeding their area of expertise
and helping it grow with the materials their students need.
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FIGURES (inserts)
3
In addition to the ISI impact factor, the journal titles were compared using the following professional web
page citing the 12 top Political Science journals: http:incites.com/research/2004/august_30_2005.html
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1. Book collection
• Collection analysis by date and location
• ICP collection compared to the entire collection
NOTES
• The Dewey classifications were chosen by a librarian and Professor
Perry. These represent the bulk of the collection, but not every title.
Also some titles within these groups may be used more by another
department. It was necessary to devise a way to study the
collection without duplicating titles (as would happen with subject
searches) so using the Dewey classification was decided upon. It is
not perfect but is a useful tool and good indicator as to what is in
the collection.
• The philosophy areas added by Professor Beardsworth represent a
large number of books that are probably used more in general
philosophy but they are the areas used in his classes. Political
Philosophy is not a ‘Dewey classification’ and therefore was difficult
to assess. Each section (Political Science 320) has a
subclassification (.01) which covers philosophy and theory. The
number 320.01 would be the philosophy and theory of political
science. Therefore when the collection is being assessed and
developed in the area of philosophy, these books will need to be
looked at separately but we did not want to list any books twice in
this study.
• Difference between Volumes and Titles – A 20 volume set is counted
as 20 volumes BUT one title
• Date range – Titles not put in one decade of dates means it is a
series (such as the Adelphi Papers or an annual title) that comes out
over a period of time.
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AUP Library Collection Evaluation Department of International and Comparative Politics
Collection Analysis by date and location - Dewey Ranges for the Department of International and
Comparative Politics
Total
Date of Number of Special Remote Distinct
Publication Dewey Range Volumes Stacks Reference Collections Storage Titles
date range 100s, 300s, 900s 609 404 143 5 57 98
before 1900 100s, 300s, 900s 141 33 0 29 79 111
1900s 100s, 300s, 900s 129 34 0 5 90 101
1910s 100s, 300s, 900s 139 35 0 7 97 132
1920s 100s, 300s, 900s 288 112 0 3 173 260
1930s 100s, 300s, 900s 255 96 0 3 156 229
1940s 100s, 300s, 900s 336 131 0 2 203 313
1950s 100s, 300s, 900s 539 255 1 10 273 487
1960s 100s, 300s, 900s 1266 695 19 0 552 1178
1970s 100s, 300s, 900s 1759 1008 15 0 736 1664
1980s 100s, 300s, 900s 2527 1830 73 1 623 2390
1990s 100s, 300s, 900s 2216 2139 62 0 15 2187
2000s 100s, 300s, 900s 503 466 37 0 0 493
Total 100s, 300s, 900s 10707 7238 350 65 3054 9646
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0
date 1900s 1920s 1940s 1960s 1980s 2000s
range
AUP Library Collection Evaluation Department of International and Comparative Politics
Collection Analysis by date and location - Dewey Ranges 142, 146, 170, 172, 184, 185, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194 Critical
philosophy/Naturalism and related systems/Ethics/Political Ethics/Platonic philosophy/Aristotelian philosophy/Modern
western philosophy/Philosophy of United States and Canada/Philosophy of British Isles/Philosophy of Germany and
Austria/Philosophy of France
Date of Number of Special Remote Distinct
Publication Dewey Range Volumes Stacks Reference Collections Storage Titles
date range 100s 0 0 0 0 0 0
before 1900 100s 9 4 0 0 5 7
1900s 100s 14 0 0 0 14 10
1910s 100s 14 1 0 0 13 13
1920s 100s 23 8 0 0 15 17
1930s 100s 23 9 0 0 14 17
1940s 100s 18 4 0 0 14 16
1950s 100s 85 36 0 0 49 65
1960s 100s 97 64 0 0 33 82
1970s 100s 147 84 0 0 63 133
1980s 100s 343 302 0 0 41 309
1990s 100s 390 376 2 0 12 402
2000s 100s 62 62 0 0 0 62
Total 100s 1225 950 2 0 273 1133
Philosophy
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
date 1900s 1920s 1940s 1960s 1980s 2000s
range
AUP Library Collection Evaluation Department of International and Comparative Politics
Political Science
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
date 1900s 1920s 1940s 1960s 1980s 2000s
range
AUP Library Collection Evaluation Department of International and Comparative Politics
Dewey Range 321, 324, 328 Systems of governments and states/Political Process/Legislative Process
Date of Dewey Number of Special Remote Distinct
Publication Range Volumes Stacks Reference Collections Storage Titles
date range 321, 324, 328 10 0 10 0 0 1
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
date 1900s 1920s 1940s 1960s 1980s 2000s
range
AUP Library Collection Evaluation Department of International and Comparative Politics
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
date 1900s 1920s 1940s 1960s 1980s 2000s
range
AUP Library Collection Evaluation Department of International and Comparative Politics
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
date 1900s 1920s 1940s 1960s 1980s 2000s
range
AUP Library Collection Evaluation Department of International and Comparative Politics
Dewey Range 325, 326 International migration and colonization/Slavery and emancipation
Date of Dewey Number of Special Remote Distinct
Publication Range Volumes Stacks Reference Collections Storage Titles
date range 325,326 0 0 0 0 0 0
before 1900 325,326 4 1 0 2 1 4
1900s 325,326 2 0 0 0 2 2
1910s 325,326 0 0 0 0 0 0
1920s 325,326 7 2 0 0 5 7
1930s 325,326 8 2 0 0 6 6
1940s 325,326 10 4 0 0 6 10
1950s 325,326 14 8 0 0 6 13
1960s 325,326 33 12 0 0 21 32
1970s 325,326 24 16 0 0 8 24
1980s 325,326 27 23 1 0 3 25
1990s 325,326 27 27 0 0 0 27
2000s 325,326 11 8 3 0 0 9
Total 325,326 167 103 4 2 58 159
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
date 1900s 1920s 1940s 1960s 1980s 2000s
range
AUP Library Collection Evaluation Department of International and Comparative Politics
International Relations
450
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
date 1900s 1920s 1940s 1960s 1980s 2000s
range
AUP Library Collection Evaluation Department of International and Comparative Politics
Law
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
date 1900s 1920s 1940s 1960s 1980s 2000s
range
AUP Library Collection Evaluation Department of International and Comparative Politics
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
date 1900s 1920s 1940s 1960s 1980s 2000s
range
AUP Library Collection Evaluation Department of International and Comparative Politics
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
date 1900s 1920s 1940s 1960s 1980s 2000s
range
AUP Library Collection Evaluation Department of International and Comparative Politics
Collection Analysis by date and location - Dewey Range 355, 356, 357, 358, 359 Military science / Infantry
forces and warfare / Mounted forces and warfare / Air and other specialized forces / Sea forces and warfare
Date of Number of Special Remote Distinct
Publication Dewey Range Volumes Stacks Reference Collections Storage Titles
date range 355-359 80 76 4 0 0 7
before 1900 355-359 4 0 0 0 4 1
1900s 355-359 5 2 0 0 3 5
1910s 355-359 8 2 0 0 6 7
1920s 355-359 6 4 0 0 2 4
1930s 355-359 9 5 0 0 4 9
1940s 355-359 15 6 0 0 9 15
1950s 355-359 29 12 0 0 17 28
1960s 355-359 51 34 0 0 17 48
1970s 355-359 101 82 0 0 19 96
1980s 355-359 233 192 2 0 39 211
1990s 355-359 204 204 0 0 0 195
2000s 355-359 75 74 1 0 0 75
Total 355-359 820 693 7 0 120 701
Military
250
200
150
100
50
0
date 1900s 1920s 1940s 1960s 1980s 2000s
range
AUP Library Collection Evaluation Department of International and Comparative Politics
Dewey Range 900s (911, 912, 914, 915, 916, 917, 918, 919, 998, 999) All geography
Geography
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
date 1900s 1920s 1940s 1960s 1980s 2000s
range
4
2. Journals by impact factor
Forty three of our current periodical titles are related with different
aspects of political science.
• Political science: the Library has 1 periodical title from the top 12
political science journals.
• International affairs: the AUP Library has 50% of the top 12
journals in the field.
• Law journals: in the LexisNexis database, AUP has all of the
electronic versions of the top ranking journals in.
4
In addition to the ISI impact factor the journal titles were compared with the following professional web citing
the 12 top Political Science journals: http:incites.com/research/2004/august_30_2005.html
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As stated before, the ‘Impact Factor’ is a manner of giving a ranking to a
journal. “The impact factor is one of these; it is a measure of the frequency
with which the "average article" in a journal has been cited in a particular year
or period. The annual JCR impact factor is a ratio between citations and recent
citable items published. Thus, the impact factor of a journal is calculated by
dividing the number of current year citations to the source items published in
that journal during the previous two years”
http://thomsonscientific.com/knowtrend/essays/journalcitationreports/impactf
actor/
The following journals are the ones with the highest impact factor in Political
Science, Law and International Affairs in 2004.
The titles to which we have access, up to the current date, are bold.
The titles to which we have limited access (not up to the current date) are
italicized.
Titles to which we have no access (other than interlibrary loan) are underlined.
American Journal of Political Science (JSTOR and Academic Search Premier up to 1 year ago)
Journal of Democracy
Political Geography
Political Sociology
Foreign Affairs (Lexis, Business Source Elite, Wilson, Academic Search Premier – to
present)
Foreign Policy (Academic Search Premier, Business Source Elite, Wilson – present)
Journal of Common Market Studies (Periodical room current, Business Source 1 year ago)
California Law Review (Academic Search Premier, Business Source, Lexis current)
Michigan Law Review (Wilson, Academic Search Premier, Business Source, Lexis
current)
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Journals available through our collection and databases (Not all database
journals go to the current date)
JSTOR
CIAO
LexisNexis
ABA Journal
Addiction Research
Air & Space Law
Air Force Law Review
Albany Law Review
Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly
American Journal of Bioethics
American Journal of Criminal Law
American Journal of Family Law
American Journal of Law & Medicine
American Journal of Sociology
Annals of Bioethics
Annual Review of Sociology
Antitrust Bulletin
Armed Forces & Society
ASA Bulletin
Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights & the Law
Behavioral Sciences & the Law
Berkeley Journal of International Law
Berkeley La Raza Law Journal
Berkeley Technology Law Journal
Berkeley Women's Law Journal
Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review
Brigham Young University Education & Law Journal
Brigham Young University Law Review
Bulletin of Good Practice in Popular Education
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms Quarterly Bulletin
BYU Journal of Public Law
California Law Review
Cambridge Review of International Affairs
Canada -- United States Law Journal
Canadian Journal of Criminology
Canadian Journal of Criminology & Criminal Justice
Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law
Case Western Reserve Law Review
Child Welfare
Children's Rights
Chinese Journal of International Law
Civil Unions
Clinical Law Review
Columbia Law Review
Common Law World Review
Computer Security Update
CongressDaily
Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report
Constitutional Commentary
Contemporary Drug Problems
Contemporary Justice Review
Corrections Today
CQ Weekly
Creighton Law Review
Criminal Behaviour & Mental Health
Criminal Justice Ethics
Criminal Law
Criminology
Criminology & Public Policy
Disability & Society
Domestic Partnership
Ecology Law Quarterly
Education & the Law
Emory Law Journal
ERISA Litigation Alert
Essential Documents in American History
Ethics
Ethics & Behavior
European Environmental Law Review
European Foreign Affairs Review
European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law & Criminal Justice
European Journal of Health Law
European Journal of Migration & Law
European Law Journal
European Public Law
European Review of Private Law
FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
Federal Probation
Feminist Legal Studies
Florida Bar Journal
Forensic Panel Letter
Gender, Work & Organization
Global Networks
Guild Notes
Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
Harvard Law Review
Health Matrix: Journal of Law Medicine
Health, Risk & Society
Helsinki Monitor
Hospital Law Newsletter
Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
Human Rights Review
Human Rights: Journal of the Section of Individual Rights & Responsibilities
Hume Papers on Public Policy
Independent Review
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Information Infrastructure & Policy
Information Systems Security
International Criminal Law Review
International Journal of Children's Rights
International Journal of Conflict Management
International Journal of Evidence & Proof
International Journal of Information Security
International Journal of Marine & Coastal Law
International Journal of Police Science & Management
International Journal of the Legal Profession
International Journal on Minority & Group Rights
International Law FORUM du Droit International
International Review of Law, Computers & Technology
International Security
International Security Review
Islamic Law & Society
Issues in Law & Medicine
James Cook University Law Review
Journal for Juvenile Justice & Detention Services
Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling
Journal of Arts Management, Law & Society
Journal of Church & State
Journal of Computer Security
Journal of Controversial Medical Claims
Journal of Correctional Education
Journal of Criminal Justice Education
Journal of Criminal Law
Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology
Journal of Disability Policy Studies
Journal of Drug Issues
Journal of East Asian Studies
Journal of Ethics
Journal of European Integration
Journal of Family Violence
Journal of Forensic Psychiatry
Journal of Hate Studies
Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law
Journal of Law & Religion
Journal of Law & Society
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Journal of Legal History
Journal of Legal Medicine
Journal of Psychiatry & Law
Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology & Crime Prevention
Journal of Sexual Aggression
Journal of Social Welfare & Family Law
Journal of Supreme Court History
Journal of the History of International Law
JQ: Justice Quarterly
Law & Policy
Law & Practice of International Courts & Tribunals
Law & Psychology
Law & Social Inquiry
Lawyer
Legal & Criminological Psychology
Legal History Review
Legal Studies Forum
Legaldate
Managing Intellectual Property
Marquette Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Milbank Quarterly
Military Thought
Modern Law Review
NCAHF Newsletter (1984)
Non-State Actors & International Law
Northwestern University Law Review
Nuclear Law Bulletin
Ocean Development & International Law
Of Counsel
Outlook
Parameters: US Army War College
Peace & Conflict
Peacekeeping & International Relations
Perspective (08889732)
Pharmaceuticals Policy & Law
Police Practice & Research
Policing & Society
Policy
Policy Review
Progressive
Psychology, Crime & Law
Ratio Juris
Reporter
Review of Central & East European Law
Review of European Community & International Environmental Law
Review of Litigation
Russian Politics & Law
Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity
Social Forces
Social Justice Research
St. John's Law Review
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
Supreme Court Cases: Re-establishing Order
Supreme Court Cases: The Dynamic Court
Supreme Court Cases: The Early Court
Supreme Court Debates
Supreme Court Economic Review
Tennessee Bar Journal
Texas Hispanic Journal of Law & Policy
Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal
Texas International Law Journal
Texas Journal of Women & the Law
Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights
Texas Law Review
Texas Review of Entertainment & Sports Law
Texas Review of Law & Politics
Title 40 C.F.R. -- Protection of Environment
Trends in Organized Crime
Trial Lawyer
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
University of Toronto Law Journal
Utilitas
Widener Law Journal
Youth Studies
WilsonSelectPlus Titles