>
> From:
> Barbara Fister <fister_at_gac.edu>
>
>
> Apologies for cross-posting.
>
> Long, long ago in a library world far away we posted a link to a
> survey on
> interdisciplinary aggregated databases that many of you graciously
> took. Some were interested in results, which have just been published
> in the July issue of portal: Libraries and the Academy, available to
> many of you through Project Muse. For those who don't have access,
> there's a self-archived copy here -
> http://homepages.gac.edu/~fister/aggregateddatabases.pdf
>
> The short version -
> --librarians are very satisfied with these database
> --vendors are listening to librarians and are including more content.
> --from 2005-2006 at 14 undergrad libraries, use declined 10% overall.
> --in all of those libraries combined, 40% of the full text journals
> included in the database did not have a single article downloaded -
> not one - at any of the libraries; 4% of titles accounted for half of
> the downloads. Of the top ten most downloaded publications, only two
> were scholarly.
>
> Barbara (and Amy Fry and Julie Gilbert, co-authors)
Received on Mon Jul 21 2008 - 11:00:26 EDT