Dear Colin
When we did the NESLi2 study we had only 18 months of data and we recognised this was insufficient to predict trends or to comment on 'cause and effect' with so many factors potentially affecting usage. I think your set of figures illustrates this - although it is disappointing to see usage going down when you have moved to e-only, you would need to look over a longer time period to reach any conclusions.
We are now extending the NESLi2 study to incorporate usage statistics for the whole of 2004 which will enable us to look at trends over a full 2 year period. You will see that our recommendations for further research following the NESLi2 study included research into the effects of moving to e-only and other contextual factors. It will be very interesting to hear from anyone who has done any work in this area.
Best wishes
Angela
Dr Angela Conyers
evidence base
research & evaluation
UCE Library Services
University of Central England
Perry Barr
Birmingham
B42 2SU
email: [log in to unmask]
tel: 01303 240236 (home)
www.ebase.uce.ac.uk
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Subject: Re: Nesli2 analysis of usage statistics
Angela,
Thank you for this. I am currently examining our usage figures for
ScienceDirect, which show a baffling trend. From 2005 we gave up our print
Elsevier subscriptions to go for electronic access only. My expectation was
that the usage figures would rise dramatically as users are now deprived of
access to the print version. So does your research enable you to have a
theory as to why the reverse has happened as the figures for the number of
downloaded full-text articles show in first three months of 2004 and 2005?
Jan Feb March Total
2004 5,466 5,755 7,810 19,031
2005 4,282 5,478 5,618 15,378
Any comments would be welcome.
Colin
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Subject: Nesli2 analysis of usage statistics
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usage statistics study. This study involved 17 higher education libraries
and 4 NESLi2 publishers and provided an analysis of e-journals usage for the
period January 2003 to June 2004. The findings and recommendations are
currently under discussion by the JISC Journals Working Group (JWG).
Although the detailed findings remain confidential to respect agreements
made with publishers and libraries taking part in the study, a summary
report is now available on the evidence base web-site at
http://www.ebase.uce.ac.uk/docs/jiscnesli2summaryeb.pdf
<http://www.ebase.uce.ac.uk/docs/jiscnesli2summaryeb.pdf> . and on the
NESLi web-site at http://www.nesli.ac.uk/jiscnesli2summaryeb.doc. This
describes the approach taken to the study and gives the main conclusions and
recommendations.
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