Agreed- here at LSE, between 70 and 80% of traffic to our repository
comes from "the internet"- Google, Bing, Yahoo and the like.
This translates into 1000s of document downloads every month, even if
these downloads aren't necessarily being made by LSE academics, who have
the luxury of extensive e-journal holdings to make use of.
Neil Stewart, LSE Research Online.
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Leslie Carr
Sent: 01 June 2010 17:48
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Subject: Re: who is looking at IRs
How does he do a journal search? Go to the journal home page? Sit at a
terminal in the library and use a subscription aggregator? Use Web of
Science?
Or use Google, like pretty much everyone I know. That's how I find
stuff, and some of it turns out to be in repositories.
--
Les
On 1 Jun 2010, at 17:12, Richard Rankin wrote:
> I was at a meeting this afternoon promoting the population of our IR
and an academic commented that he would not go to an IR directly for
information.
> Rather he would do a journal search.
>
> Also commented that on discussion with his colleagues non of them
could recollect doing a search that led them to an IR to obtain
information on published works.
>
> He then asked who are the people who use IRs as sources of
information?
>
> Ricky
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