Catherine,

We get a lot of document supply requests to our library that result from people searching the bibliographic database and reading the abstracts, so engineers at least are still doing things that way.

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Sheila Thomas BA MCLIP MWeldI
Weldasearch Manager
TWI Ltd, Granta Park, CB21 6AL, UK
www.weldasearch.com


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> Catherine Ebenezer
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> Subject: Re: [lis-e-resources] Decreasing usage statistics: thanks
> 
> >Speaking as someone whose whole professional life of over 30 years has
> been with abstracting and indexing services, I find this very >pleasing!
> 
> It is good that people are accessing these resources, but are they 'satisficing'
> by reading abstracts rather than full text of material that is relevant to them?
> We are observing a not dissimilar abstracts-only phenomenon here in my
> trust, where the psychopharmacology current awareness bulletin produced
> by the drug information pharmacist (which does not incorporate links to full
> text) hardly ever generates document supply requests to the library service.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Catherine
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > On Behalf Of Sheila Thomas
> > Sent: 19 April 2012 13:58
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> > Subject: Re: [lis-e-resources] Decreasing usage statistics: thanks
> >
> > Sarah Taylor wrote:
> >
> > > One thing I have noticed looking at our own statistics is that it
> seems to be
> > > the abstracting and indexing databases that have seen an increase,
> rather
> > > than full-text databases. I find this really quite interesting,
> given that where
> > > we do come in for criticism in surveys, the comments always seem to
> say that
> > > we do not have access to enough electronic journals! I have been
> wondering
> > > if it might be the case that indexing databases seem sometimes to be
> 'easier'
> > > to get into, but that's purely my own suspicion.
> >
> > Speaking as someone whose whole professional life of over 30 years has
> been with abstracting and indexing services, I find this very
> > pleasing!
> >
> > --
> > Sheila Thomas BA MCLIP MWeldI
> > Weldasearch Manager
> > TWI Ltd, Granta Park, CB21 6AL, UK
> > www.weldasearch.com
> >
> >
> >
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