APPENDIX 109
Memorandum from the North Carolina State
University Libraries
OVERVIEW OF
INSTITUTION SUBMITTING
WRITTEN EVIDENCE
As one of the United States' outstanding land-grant
universities, North Carolina State University offers degrees through
the Colleges of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Design, Education,
Engineering, Humanities & Social Sciences, Management, Natural
Resources, Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Textiles, and
Veterinary Medicine. As the largest academic institution in the
state, NC State enrolls more than 28,000 students and offers bachelor's
degrees in 92 fields of study, master's degrees in 101 fields,
and doctoral degrees in 58 fields, as well as a Doctor of Veterinary
Medicine degree. Fifty-five research centers, institutes, and
laboratories support more than 400 faculty, 900 graduate students
and 200 undergraduates. The university has a total of more than
6,000 employees, including approximately 1,600 faculty and extension
field faculty.
The university has an annual budget of approximately
$820 million and an endowment valued at more than $312 million.
NC State is ranked first in total research expenditures in the
16-campus University of North Carolina system, and second in total
state and local research funding among national research universities.
NC State's expenditures for research and sponsored programs exceed
$440 million.
Located in North Carolina's capital city, Raleigh,
NC State anchors one corner of the Research Triangle Park, which
houses more than 140 organizations dedicated to innovative research
and development. Duke University in Durham and the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill mark the other two points of
the triangle.
The NCSU Libraries consists of a central library
and branch libraries for design, natural resources, textiles,
and veterinary medicine. With a staff of 302 full-time-equivalent
employees, the Libraries has over 3 million volumes, acquires
more than 47,000 print and electronic serials, and has a total
annual budget of more than $23 million (US), with approximately
$8.5 million allocated to collections. The NCSU Libraries is a
founding member of SOLINET and a member of the Association of
Research Libraries, the Digital Library Federation, the Coalition
for Networked Information, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic
Resources Coalition, the Council for Library and Information Resources,
and the Center for Research Libraries. Duke University, the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina Central University
and North Carolina State University form the Triangle Research
Libraries Network (TRLN), with combined resources of more than
13 million volumes, and collections budgets totaling more than
$29 million.
SUMMARY
The NCSU Libraries submits the following memorandum,
(Annex) as evidence in the Science and Technology Committee's
inquiry into scientific publications. The Triangle Research Libraries
Network recently discontinued its consortial license agreement
with Reed Elsevier for the ScienceDirect product. The Provosts
of the three TRLN institutions that were parties to this decision
submitted this memorandum to the university community.
February 2004
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