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completely inclining to e-only policy will undermine the basis of journal holdings as well as
weaken libraries’ social function of passing on the cultural heritage.
Synthesizing the findings and analyses above, the authors proposed some reliable tactics and
strategies in building journal collection of academic libraries. As for OA resources, based on the
integration of OA resources, academic libraries need to develop OA policy and its detailed rules,
“and to cooperate with international scientific communities to promote an international convention
for open access to achieve coordinated efforts towards healthy and sustainable development of
open access” (Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2014). Generally, the most crucial work of academic
libraries is to coordinate the development between electronic and print collections. The collection
building of academic libraries should be conducted in accordance with the following three
elements: the patrons’ needs, the collection development policy, and the collection of key discipline
assigned by CASHL. Precise analyses on the quality, temporal coverage and scope of databases
combined with acquisition budgets should be utilized to optimize the database combination. It
also means, the e-only policy is far from a universal collection development policy. Print format
is a promising candidate when the full-text database have long been criticized for its collection
continuity and quoted price. Seeking to coordinate development of the three resources, overlap
analysis will be the next study focus of the authors to facilitate further research on this topic.

Acknowledgment

The authors acknowledge the assistance of Qiong CUI, acquisition department director, who
provided constructive proposals for the paper. Thanks also go to Xuefei YAO, and Wenjia HU for
their valuable comments and suggestions on English version of this paper.

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