Cooperative purchase and use: a study of the ProQuest full text database of dissertations and theses (PQDT)

作者：Yao Xiaoxia^*; Zhao Yongchao

来源：Interlending and Document Supply, 2015, 43(2): 94-97.

DOI：10.1108/ILDS-01-2015-0002

• Resource sharing
• Consortium
• CALIS
• Cooperative purchasing

Purpose - To purpose of this study is to describe and to demonstrate the value of a consortium purchase of the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses full- text database (PQDT) in China.
Design/methodology/approach - The authors provide a first-person account based on their professional positions at the China Academic Library & Information System Administrative Center.
Findings - That the PQDT database has steadily increased the use of theses in China with more institutions subscribing every year. The PQDT full- text database has become one of the most cost effective databases cooperatively purchased in China.
Originality/value - One of the few in-depth studies of the use of the PQDT database.

• 出版日期2015
• 单位北京大学