2003 Statistics for Electronic Resource Use: South Central Library System

Below are 5 tables of usage statistics for the following online reference databases:

EBSCOHost
Literature Resource Center
netLibrary
ReferenceUSA Business
WorldCat

Following each table are links to graphs of key data and definitions for each of the categories provided for that resource.

	Searches	Sessions	Abstracts	Full-text articles (HTML)	PDFs
Jan 2003	9585	2720	6829	6211	855
Feb 2003	10441	2766	8153	7097	1076
Mar 2003	10363	2981	9621	8726	987
Apr 2003	10893	2996	8315	7272	1047
May 2003	6490	2346	7363	6609	871
Jun 2003	6300	1938	5151	4542	1113
Jul 2003	6795	2204	5917	5420	1460
Aug 2003	5950	2012	4927	4576	1223
Sep 2003	7578	2493	6264	5532	1062
Oct 2003	10918	2372	6734	5208	973
Nov 2003	10555	2143	6544	4719	1142
Dec 2003	8665	1764	5536	4391	996

Definitions of categories | Graphs | Top of Page

	Searches	Sessions	Connect time	Average session time	Total retrievals	Total turn-aways	Total % turned away
Jan 03	4816	860	7631	9	*	77	8.95
Feb 03	3297	595	5201	9	*	132	22.18
Mar 03	3875	634	5560	9	*	9	1.42
Apr 03	5484	1010	8624	9	*	22	2.18
May 03	8087	1328	12989	10	*	105	7.91
Jun 03	3368	782	6091	8	1494	5	0.64
Jul 03	3827	791	6025	8	1595	9	1.14
Aug 03	2564	577	4344	8	1137	**	**
Sep 03	3586	846	6477	8	1686	**	**
Oct 03	5923	1290	9896	8	2647	**	**
Nov 03	6386	1485	11657	8	3223	**	**
Dec 03	6912	1439	12814	9	3816	**	**

*Accurate statistics not available
**Unlimited use for LRC was purchased in August 2003. Turnaway statistics no longer exist.

	Usage	Accounts created	Books turned away	Total Turnaways
Jan 2003	362	79	4	7
Feb 2003	336	66	2	2
Mar 2003	372	60	7	18
Apr 2003	587	80	11	20
May 2003	646	84	9	18
Jun 2003	646	83	5	10
Jul 2003	578	78	8	13
Aug 2003	562	51	2	2
Sep 2003	685	86	14	29
Oct 2003	664	71	11	27
Nov 2003	632	82	13	42
Dec 2003	493	75	6	12

Definitions of categories | Graphs | Top of Page

	Logins	Searches	Previewed Records	# of Print/Detail Views	Total Records Printed or Viewed
Jan 2003	516	1697	48469	2012	7674
Feb 2003	698	2335	55476	3105	5415
Mar 2003	1006	3203	83663	6744	8924
Apr 2003	964	3890	102284	5863	8152
May 2003	883	2467	84979	7298	8729
Jun 2003	1054	2856	85121	5083	6770
Jul 2003	775	2094	72566	3815	5440
Aug 2003	782	2466	65672	6070	7058
Sep 2003	*	*	*	*	*
Oct 2003	*	*	*	*	*
Nov 2003	*	*	*	*	*
Dec 2003	672	2416	42201	2960	3963

*Accurate statistics not available.

	Searches	Sessions	100% Capacity	% of sessions turned-away	Total turnaways
Jan 2003	3503	1222	9.33	8.67	116
Feb 2003	3156	1215	10.12	7.39	97
Mar 2003	3703	1338	9.12	10.38	155
Apr 2003	4038	1441	8.33	6.73	104
May 2003	3696	1409	10.93	12.97	210
Jun 2003	4073	1600	11.69	10.26	183
Jul 2003	4545	1767	3.4	10.30	203
Aug 2003	4427	1693	5.91	3.09	54
Sep 2003	4543	1891	2.96	10.25	216
Oct 2003	4930	1837	*	17.1	379
Nov 2003	4062	1406	*	9.11	141
Dec 2003	4471	1648	*	10.82	200

*Accurate statistics not available.