Usage data for electronic resources: A comparison between locally collected and vendor-provided statistics

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 16-22

  Duy, Joanna ^a   Vaughan, Liwen ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

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EID: 0037231211     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0099-1333(02)00400-7     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Deborah Blecic Joan Fiscella Stephen Wiberley Jr The Measurement of Use of Web-based Information Resources An Early Look at Vendor-supplied Data College & Research Libraries 62 2001 434 453 September
2. Judy Luther, White Paper on Electronic Journal Usage Statistics (Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2000). Available at: < http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub94abst.html > (September 9, 2002)
3. Wonsik, “Jeff” Shim, Charles R. McClure, Bruce Fraser, John Carlo Bertot, Arif Dagli, & Emily Leahy. “ Measures and Statistics for Research Library Networked Services: Procedures and Issues: ARL E-Metrics Phase II Report .” (Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2001). Available at: http://www.arl.org/stats/newmeas/emetrics/contract00-01.html#Phase2 (September 9, 2002)
4. Shim et al., Measures and Statistics for Research , p. xv
5. Blecic et al., “The Measurement of Use”, p. 437
6. Luther, p. 1
7. Shim et al., Measures and Statistics for Research , p. xv
8. This has happened to one of the authors three times within less than a year—by three different vendors, two of which provide very expensive electronic resources, In this case, having reliable, locally collected data can help libraries detect problems with the vendor’s statistics
9. Shim et al., Measures and Statistics for Research , p. 64
10. Ibid, p. 64
11. Ibid, p. 63
12. Ibid, p. 64
13. Blecic, et al., “The Measurement of Use,” p. 437
14. If one discounts the e-journal vendors
15. Ibid, p. 451