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2004 Usage Statistics for Online Reference Databases



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

AncestryPlus
EBSCOHost
Literature Resource Center
netLibrary
ReferenceUSA Business
What Do I Read Next?
WorldCat


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

AncestryPlus

  Sessions Average Session Time Total Page Views
Feb 2004 209 30 4318
Mar 2004 434 45 8896
Apr 2004 779 52 19480
May 2004 704 38 40740
Jun 2004 754 53 26629
Jul 2004 852 52 40253
Aug 2004 852 54 46344
Sep 2004 735 59 43270
Oct 2004 792 52 40969
Nov 2004 689 34 23360
Dec 2004 583 36 20713
2004 Totals 7383 46 162030


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EBSCOHost

  Searches Sessions Abstracts Full-text articles (HTML) PDFs
Jan 2004 12091 2703 5206 4450 1174
Feb 2004 11843 3198 5637 4861 1193
Mar 2004 13731 3526 6339 5228 1236
Apr 2004 16680 3252 6536 6068 1178
May 2004 11204 2570 4634 4261 977
Jun 2004 7981 2262 3561 3264 805
Jul 2004 7651 2046 3331 2889 764
Aug 2004 7911 2237 3194 2891 796
Sep 2004 8743 2570 4392 4103 1179
Oct 2004 11107 3077 5429 4679 1242
Nov 2004 12081 3388 5513 4822 1490
Dec 2004 10281 2739 4588 4073 1263
2004 TOTALS 131304 33568 58360 51589 13297


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Literature Resource Center

  Searches Sessions Total retrievals

Total Fulltext

Jan 04 5247 999 2614 97
Feb 04 4785 874 2358 180
Mar 04 5620 827 2368 153
Apr 04 5378 1020 2965 186
May 04 7717 1279 4255 297
Jun 04 2867 523 1417 175
Jul 04 2311 422 1235 116
Aug 04 2062 380 967 46
Sep 04 2747 483 1334 108
Oct 04 3185 544 1540 78
Nov 04 5349 954 2688 208
Dec 04 8034 1184 3435 294
2004 TOTALS 55302 9489 27176 1938

 

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netLibrary


  Usage Accounts created Books turned away Total Turnaways
Jan 2004 802 99 13 28
Feb 2004 832 62 18 46
Mar 2004 993 65 21 68
Apr 2004 744 45 16 38
May 2004 921 59 17 55
Jun 2004 797 44 11 31
Jul 2004 808 44 19 40
Aug 2004 888 49 17 52
Sep 2004 1159 63 28 103
Oct 2004 1121 59 16 45
Nov 2004 1182 68 28 97
Dec 2004 1163 62 24 58
2004 TOTALS 11410 719 228 661


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ReferenceUSA Business


  Logins Searches Previewed Records # of Print/Detail Views Total Records Printed or Viewed
Jan 04 796 2391 70331 2955 4486
Feb 04 801 2252 59625 4021 4835
Mar 04 945 2587 73345 4851 6085
Apr 04 810 2466 61235 3996 5198
May 04 650 2312 42667 3478 10760
Jun 04 792 2565 58635 4325 10062
Jul 04 769 2332 46197 3653 6214
Aug 04 842 2877 83869 4677 5815
Sep 04 618 1793 51391 3349 4108
Oct 04 848 2050 60206 3670 5107
Nov 04 904 3295 85838 4296 5875
Dec 04 664 2462 72058 3294 3735
2004 TOTALS 9439 29382 765397 46565 72280


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What Do I Read Next?


  Sessions Searches Total Retrievals
Jan 2004 414 1503 1202
Feb 2004 452 1312 1052
Mar 2004 592 2034 1831
Apr 2004 459 1738 1545
May 2004 371 1826 1508
Jun 2004 505 2009 1955
Jul 2004 542 1969 2306
Aug 2004 417 1593 1274
Sep 2004 390 1728 1572
Oct 2004 363 1295 1107
Nov 2004 448 1588 1411
Dec 2004 417 1696 1602
2004 TOTALS 5370 20291 18265


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WorldCat
(Public Accounts Only)


  Searches Sessions 100% Capacity % of sessions turned-away Total turnaways
Jan 04 5658 1937 0 14.93 340
Feb 04 5372 1935 0 15.24 348
Mar 04 5643 2144 0 7.86 183
Apr 04 4255 1726 0 4.75 86
May 04 4257 1773 * * *
Jun 04 5157 1892 * * *
Jul 04 6156 1841 * * *
Aug 04 4287 1592 * * *
Sep 04 4800 1772 * * *
Oct 04 5230 1836 * * *
Nov 04 4707 1652 * * *
Dec 04 4659 1636 * * *
2004 TOTALS 60181 21736      

* After April 2004, SCLS had unlimited WorldCat usage.

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For more information about database statistics, contact Stef Morrill.

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