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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From: "Angela Conyers" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 11:41 AM
Subject: Nesli2 analysis of usage statistics
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> Evidence base has recently reported to JISC on the NESLi2 analysis of
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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> For further information about the study, or the work of evidence base in
the analysis of usage statistics, please contact Angela Conyers
([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) or Pete Dalton
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