Electronic journals and changes in scholarly communication : The results of the comprehensive analysis of NACSIS-ILL transaction records from 1994 to 2007

Abstract

By proposing a conceptual model of document demands and services, this paper aims to examine changes in scholarly communication with the advent and proliferation of electronic journals. It became clear that “Big Deal” contracts and the development of institutional repositories have brought a change in the reduction of ILL requests, while the document demand itself seems to increase in general, which are affected by such factors as the increase of user population and the improvement of discoverability of articles realized by the growth of bibliographic databases available via WWW. The digitization of scholarly journals has improved the availability of journal articles, though there remain some issues such as budgets for electronic resources and accessibility to non-digitized materials.