Big Deal - good deal? Or is there a better deal?

Big Deal - good deal? Or is there a better deal?

Deal or No Deal? Evaluating Big Deals and Their Journals

This paper presents methods to develop metrics that compare Big Deal journal packages and the journals within those packages. Deal-level metrics guide selection of a Big Deal for termination. Journal-level metrics guide selection of individual subscriptions from journals previously provided by a terminated deal. The paper argues that while the proposed metrics provide helpful quantitative data ...

Deal or No Deal? - Asessing the Daily Deal Shopper

We build upon previous work done in online shopping segmentation but follow a customer-revealed approach by using an explorative cluster analysis on a sample of 11,848 daily deal shoppers located in Switzerland. We identify six segments into which the daily deal shoppers can be categorized: recreational shoppers, mobile shoppers, traditionalists, bargain hunters, socializers, and convenience se...

A Better Deal for Subnormals

The past few years have seen a greater recognition of the part that research can play in estimating the need for medical care services, in analysing the ways in which such services actually function, as distinct from the ways in which they are conventionally assumed to function, and in assessing their effects upon patients. Such operational studies have already done a great deal to deepen our u...

Beware Publishers Bearing Gifts: Why the "big Deal" Is a Bad Deal for Universities