This report explores issues around levels of access to research journals by SMEs, drawing on three sources: a literature review and primary data from an online survey, supported by qualitative interviews. There are 4.7 million SMEs in the UK representing 99.9% of all firms and responsible for 59% of private sector employment. The study was designed not just to look at SME use of journals literature in isolation but to put this into context by examining how important this information was to the company, both in itself and also in comparison to other kinds of information, and also how often SMEs made use of the information and how they obtained it.
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