Collective Serials Analysis: The Relevance of a Journal in Supporting Teaching and Research

The cooperative efforts of the technical service librarian, the business subject librarian, and the business school faculty to gather data in order to rank journals by usage, faculty citations, and faculty perceived worth are examined in this article. Specifically, the authors focus on the following: the process and time invested in the collection of both electronic and hard-copy usage statics' of the journals for each fund in the University of Mississippi's collection; presentation of the access database created by the business librarian to collect and analyze the business school's faculty's citations over the last five years; the matrix developed to analyze the input of the business-school faculty's recommendations for journal cuts to ensure key research and academic support journals were protected; and a comparison between the ordered list and the faculty's recommendations for cuts.