A Study on Electronic Journals Subscription Decision-making Cognitive Factor of University Librarian

[[abstract]]In recent years followed the network science and technology developed and the electronic publication prosperity, the electronic journal rapid development changed the traditional academic dissemination communication way. The university library the crisis which surges upward faced with the journal price, simultaneously the electronic journals is introduced massively and produces the significant influence. The library subscription budget reduces, in addition the electronic journals price expensive also counts the price diversely complex, bears and subscriptions in the personnel work all to create the enormous pressure to the library funds, how chooses has the benefit also conforms to the user demand electronic journals, is a university library subscription decision-making big topic. Because the electronic journals choice type is multitudinous, the manufacturer weeds through the old to bring forth the new, carries on the policy-making subscription because of the objective method is the feasible appraisal way. After this research the university library electronic journals subscription, the electronic journals correlation research as well as the electronic journals choice and the appraisal essential factor performs the generalized analysis, will affect the electronic journals subscription decision-making discrimination for the content subject, the retrieval use, the use technology, the contract is authorized, the manufacturer support and the price pattern and so on six big construction surface appraisal project. The questionnaire provide divides into two stages: The first stage uses the Delphi Method, carries on two round expert questionnaire to provide confirmation the electronic journals subscription decision-making pattern level construction content. The second stage uses the Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP), construction surface and the appraisal criterion in view of the electronic journals subscription decision-making level, carries on the weight analysis and the precedence. This findings discovered that, in the subscription decision-making appraisal construction surface, accounts for the weight by the price pattern construction surface institute (0.297) high, next is the content subject (0.296), the retrieval uses (0.155), the use technology (0.108), the contract is authorized (0.08) as well as the manufacturer supports (0.064); But subscriptions in the decision criteria first foreword, the important influence is big the first six items, respectively is the price pattern construction surface computing mode and the project (1), the elastic price policy (3), the alliance price (4), content subject construction surface reader demanding (2), the including journals content quality (5), as well as the retrieval use construction surface retrieval function (6) and so on the appraisal criteria, may take time the university library electronic journals subscription decision-making the consideration basis.