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2005 Usage Statistics for Online Reference Databases



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

AncestryPlus
EBSCOHost
HeritageQuest
Literature Resource Center
netLibrary
OverDrive Digital Audiobooks
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
Jan 2005 677 43 14918
Feb 2005 787 37 16513
Mar 2005 1188 34 21939
Apr 2005 1110 40 19732
May 2005 764 64 14386
Jun 2005 696 49 12070
Jul 2005 206 82 4314
Aug 2005 1420 44 12222
Sep 2005 1588 60 18014
Oct 2005 1494 50 74478
Nov 2005 1688 45 75743
Dec 2005 586 43 25464
2005 Totals 13693 49 575314

*AncestryPlus became Ancestry Library Edition in August 2005.


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EBSCOHost

  Searches Sessions Abstracts Full-text articles (HTML) PDFs
Jan 2005 9814 2706 4145 3810 1063
Feb 2005 10399 2582 4355 5148 1337
Mar 2005 12658 2868 5250 4864 1568
Apr 2005 22827 2833 6108 5915 1589
May 2005 22110 2945 4955 4953 1252
Jun 2005 19761 1977 3963 3791 1280
Jul 2005 16052 1507 3360 3040 1189
Aug 2005 16979 1816 3403 3412 1177
Sep 2005 18414 2055 3886 3991 1312
Oct 2005 22276 2334 5591 4896 1902
Nov 2005 23756 2639 5060 5005 1766
Dec 2005 16940 2046 3877 4140 1456
2005 TOTALS 211986 28308 53953 52965 16891


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HeritageQuest

  Searches Views
Jan 2005 16230 28663
Feb 2005 17662 35978
Mar 2005 17359 34772
Apr 2005 11878 20520
May 2005 9140 16007
Jun 2005 8583 15621
Jul 2005 10649 16785
Aug 2005 12077 17951
Sep 2005 10671 21986
Oct 2005 11920 23669
Nov 2005 8373 21521
Dec 2005 5060 8199
2005 TOTALS 139602 261672


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Literature Resource Center

  Searches Sessions Total retrievals

Total Fulltext

Jan 2005 4539 814 2336 96
Feb 2005 3581 610 1719 166
Mar 2005 4749 765 2635 343
Apr 2005 5339 973 3212 261
May 2005 6803 1180 4046 371
Jun 2005 2009 353 1133 192
Jul 2005 2474 390 1181 228
Aug 2005 2497 396 1150 424
Sep 2005 2504 476 1203 493
Oct 2005 4706 587 1947 859
Nov 2005 3448 712 1889 919
Dec 2005 4835 811 2698 1573
2005 TOTALS 47484 8067 25149 5925

 

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netLibrary


  Usage Accounts created Books turned away Total Turnaways
Jan 2005 1528 84 32 117
Feb 2005 1305 65 21 78
Mar 2005 1465 89 17 51
Apr 2005 1303 74 27 58
May 2005 1483 74 26 61
Jun 2005 1193 56 26 98
Jul 2005 1198 62 29 80
Aug 2005 1167 80 25 59
Sep 2005 1303 70 31 85
Oct 2005 1291 65 39 117
Nov 2005 1260 68 27 85
Dec 2005 1055 66 19 42
2005 TOTALS 15551 853 319 931


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OverDrive


  New Patrons Circulations
Oct 2005 3 4
Nov 2005 180 224
Dec 2005 115 282
2005 TOTALS 298 510


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ReferenceUSA Business


  Logins Searches Previewed Records # of Print/Detail Views Total Records Printed or Viewed
Jan 2005 964 5191 99641 9955 11051
Feb 2005 1041 3618 87053 8588 10395
Mar 2005 1091 3647 74583 7648 8636
Apr 2005 880 2768 57411 5207 6494
May 2005 791 2385 56708 3653 5120
Jun 2005 626 2054 44624 3554 4889
Jul 2005 936 3256 78909 5882 8147
Aug 2005 1025 4334 88325 5003 6896
Sep 2005 925 3387 84839 4858 7138
Oct 2005 1019 3251 80343 5475 8509
Nov 2005 722 2011 46138 2762 4941
Dec 2005 739 3489 66213 3973 5602
2005 TOTALS 10759 39391 864787 66558 87818


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What Do I Read Next?


  Sessions Searches Full Text Total Retrievals
Jan 2005 402 1675 n/a 1524
Feb 2005 353 1358 n/a 1353
Mar 2005 452 1663 n/a 1550
Apr 2005 401 1258 n/a 1555
May 2005 452 1697 n/a 1926
Jun 2005 384 1278 n/a 1247
Jul 2005 414 1609 7 1596
Aug 2005 446 1610 18 1566
Sep 2005 353 1271 14 1169
Oct 2005 393 1483 21 1848
Nov 2005 361 1621 21 1502
Dec 2005 316 1201 12 1144
2005 TOTALS 4727 17724 93 17980


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WorldCat
(Public Accounts Only)


  Searches Sessions
Jan 2005 5503 1774
Feb 2005 5042 1903
Mar 2005 6489 2220
Apr 2005 5683 1759
May 2005 6105 1843
Jun 2005 5690 1959
Jul 2005 5869 1991
Aug 2005 6201 2039
Sep 2005 5960 1937
Oct 2005 5334 1776
Nov 2005 5191 1804
Dec 2005 4392 1533
2005 TOTALS 67459 22538

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For more information about database statistics, contact Heidi Moe.

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