P. 42-59The study is focused on the changes in the
consumption of electronic information by
the academic communities of five Spanish
universities through the contents
distributed by four widely used suppliers,
from the very first subscription to them
down to 2010. Similarly, the preferences of
these institutions for titles distributed by
the suppliers under consideration and their
links to various different academic fields
were investigated. From 24% to 30% of the
overall total of downloads came from the
top 25 favourite titles of the respective
academic communities. This fact points to a
need to go beyond the Big Deal model and
strive for greater flexibility in subscriptions
to resources, so as to have made-tomeasure
suppliesS
