Apologies for this message which I did not intend to go to the whole list,
but if anyone has any comment on the trend described, I should be interested
anyway.
Colin
Colin Gerrard,
Technical Services Manager,
Templeman Library,
University of Kent,
Canterbury CT2 7NU
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> 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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