Methods or techniques available for assessing the cost and benefits of periodicals (both print and electronic

[saba nasreen bano]

i need the methods or techniques available for assessing the cost and benefits from periodicals

[Gulshan Kumar Pahwa]

Mam, In my view, There is not any hard and fast rule or methods available for assessing the cost and benefits of periodicals. For assessing the cost and benefit, you have to go into the contents of that particular journal and also you have to go through impact factor of that journal. If the impact factor is high than that journal shall be beneficial for your library and if the impact factor is high than the cost will also be high.
Thanks !

[saba nasreen bano]

sir thanks for reply
i know that application of this concept is new for libraries in india.basically its a concept of financial management.
can u give me the information about that person who have already worked on this topic
regards
saba

[E.SUTHANTHIRA DEVI]

benefits of periodicals could be shown by getting acknowledgement of the users. the readers should write date , name and id card number in the attached paper with the periodicals. A plain paper should be attached with each and every day newspaper, magazines.... user tracking is provided by the publishers in online journals. hence we can analyse the beneficiaries. defenitely electronic form of periodicals is lesser cost than print version. the benefits are more in electronic forms. it serves multiple users at any number of time of viewing and also faster retieval of information possible. this is my opinion.

[saba nasreen bano]

thanx for giving me valuable information

how can we get full stasistics of use of e-journals by the publishers

saba