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10.2%
increase
EBOOK
USAGE
An open access full-text
collection of over 10,000 volumes of CUHK’s theses and doctoral dissertations from 1967 was
launched in December 2014. The Collection has been very well received by users.
Within 6 months of its launch, there were almost seven million successful requests.
Launch of
CUHK Electronic Theses & Dissertations.
Annual eBook usage increased by
10.2% to over 2,700,000 successful
book chapter downloads.
Significant purchases
Ebooks.
During the year the Library purchased a number of new ebook
packages from publishers such as Cambridge University Press, Oxford
University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Project Muse, Royal Chemical
Society, Springer, Taylor & Francis.
For the first time a Library Collection
Development Policy has been made available to the CUHK community after consultation with
Faculties, Departments and the Library Users Group. The Policy sets out collection selection
criteria and long-term retention policies, as well as individual departmental requirements.
The majority of departments have selected e-preferred acquisitions for both journals and
books.
Launch of a Collection Development Policy.
Realising the
Potential of the
Library’s Collections
Archival files for
key journal titles were purchased including the American Geophysical
Union, the American Institute of Physics, BMJ Journal, back files from
de Gruyter, JSTOR’s XI and XII Collections, Springer and Wiley.
Ejournals, Newspapers and Digital Primary Sources.