Evolution of the big deals use in the public universities of the Castile and Leon region, Spain

espanolSe estudia la evolucion del uso de revistas cientificas electronicas en el periodo 2007-2018 realizado por las comunidades academicas de las universidades publicas de Castilla y Leon adscritas al consorcio Bucle. Se analizan las descargas de articulos distribuidos por cuatro proveedores de amplio espectro: Emerald, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink y Wiley. Inesperadamente, dadas las nuevas vias de acceso a los contenidos, este analisis muestra que en las universidades publicas de Castilla y Leon se ha incrementado el numero de descargas. Sin embargo se ha constatado que pese al crecimiento, unas pocas revistas aglutinan la mayor parte de las descargas y que un elevado numero de titulos no se utiliza. Se verifica que las universidades con mas plantilla y mayor diversidad de areas de conocimiento utilizan un abanico de titulos mas amplio y obtienen asi un mayor rendimiento de las contrataciones. Todo lo anterior nos lleva a cuestionar el sistema de contratacion de paquetes cerrados y multidisciplinares de centenares de revistas y otros recursos o big deals. En un momento de cambio impulsado por el Plan S, consideramos mas necesario que nunca conocer la situacion de partida en la provision de contenidos de publicaciones cientificas seriadas que ayude a establecer de manera fundamentada las estrategias adecuadas y mas eficientes de acceso a la informacion cientifica. EnglishThe evolution of the use of electronic scientific journals in the 2007-2018 period by the academic communities of the public universities of Castilla and Leon, members of the Bucle consortium, is studied. Downloads of articles distributed by four broad-spectrum providers are analyzed: Emerald, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, and Wiley. Unexpectedly, in spite of the new ways of accessing content, this analysis shows that the number of downloads in public universities in Castile and Leon has increased. However, it has been found that despite the growth, a few journals concentrate most of the downloads and that a large number of titles are not used. It has been verified that the universities with a higher number of staff and greater diversity of knowledge areas use a wider range of titles and thus obtain a higher benefit from their contracts. All of the above leads us to question the system of contracting big deals, i.e., bundles of hundreds of multidisciplinary journals and other resources. In a moment of change promoted by Plan S, we consider it more necessary than ever to understand the situation of the provision of serial scientific publications and to find the best strategy to have access to them.

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