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crl-15972	Walters, William H.	Journal Prices, Book Acquisitions, and Sustainable College Library Collections	2008	11	.pdf	application/pdf	5732	208	42	For example: • library books in the natural and applied sciences typically circulate just as much as those in other subject areas;16 • the use of electronic books (views or downloads per title) is higher in the sciences than in other fields;17 • engineering and physical science majors check out library books only slightly less o�en than other students;18 • nursing students rely more on books than on journals;19 • in their wri�en coursework, engi- neering students beyond the first year of study cite five times as many books as journal articles;20 • science faculty cite books on a regular basis, and the number of citations per cited book is especially high in the sciences;21 • more than 80 percent of the books acquired by academic health science libraries circulate within the first three years, with an average of 4.6 circulations during that time.22 Circulation data for a typical liberal arts college (table 1) provide further evidence of frequent book use in the sciences. Both undergrad- uate and research libraries now devote 70 to 80 percent of their acquisitions budgets to print and online serials.5 Because the decline in library book acquisitions has coincided with an increase in scholarly book production, academic libraries are able to purchase only a small and dimin- ishing proportion of the important new books published each year.6 This shi� in expenditure pa�erns can be attributed mainly to rising journal prices, especially in the sciences.	cache/crl-15972.pdf	txt/crl-15972.txt