Electronic Journal Usage Statistics in Practice

Kidd, Tony

doi:10.1629/1511

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“…Results revealed that respondents used e-resources for less than 50% of the time they spent on the library each term. This finding matches results cited in the e-resources literature (Kidd 2002;Voorbij 1999;Hiller 2002;Rowley 2001;Dillon and Hahn 2002). Table 2 shows that the frequency of use of e-resources was higher in the College of Food Systems and the College of Science than other colleges.…”

Section: Frequency Of Use Of E-resourcessupporting

confidence: 88%

“…Faculty members and other professionals in the field of science, math and medicine were early Brought to you by | University of Iowa Libraries Authenticated Download Date | 5/24/15 6:28 PM 20 adopters of electronic journals and other digital library resources and remain the heaviest and most enthusiastic users (Kidd 2002;Voorbij 1999;Hiller 2002;Rowley 2001;Dillon and Hahn 2002). Faculty members and other professionals in the field of science, math and medicine were early Brought to you by | University of Iowa Libraries Authenticated Download Date | 5/24/15 6:28 PM 20 adopters of electronic journals and other digital library resources and remain the heaviest and most enthusiastic users (Kidd 2002;Voorbij 1999;Hiller 2002;Rowley 2001;Dillon and Hahn 2002).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Use and User Perception of Electronic Resources in the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU)

Ibrahim¹

2004

Libri

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This study reports findings from a survey conducted to measure the use and perception of the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) faculty members of electronic resources. Questionnaires were sent to a sample of 140 faculty members. Responses were received from 125 (89%) faculty mem-bers. Analysis confirmed frequency of use of electronic resources was low. Reasons cited were lack of time because of the time needed to focus on teaching; lack of awareness to electronic resources provided by the library; ineffective communication channels, and language barrier.

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Section: Frequency Of Use Of E-resourcessupporting

confidence: 88%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Use and User Perception of Electronic Resources in the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU)

Ibrahim¹

2004

Libri

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“…The researchers had studied about various factors influencing the use of electronic resources in general and specific perspectives such as Postgraduate student's usage [1], adoption of digital resources [2,3], student's attitude towards usage [4], learning behavior [5] and user satisfaction [6,7,8,9].…”

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Specialization Impact on Internet Resource Usage: Omani Undergraduate Learner’s Perspectives

Sriram¹

2014

IJMECS

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The current educational processes need various tools and technological supports in order to attain the required level of knowledge. The learning processes have been simplified with the help of different resources including internet resources. The usage of internet resources usage depends on the learner's requirements in the field of study. This research had identified the significant impacts of the specialization of the learners on the internet resource usage. Also, the paper identified some specializations that have major influences in using such internet resources in learning processes. The study had been conducted in Omani undergraduate student's environment with respect to selected specializations. The specialization impacts on the frequency of using internet resources, places of searching and purpose of using internet resources in the learning processes were analyzed using conditional probabilities and impacts had been identified with the help of decision tree diagram. The results showed that the students studying Information Technology specialization had greater impact in using internet resources in their learning processes compared to others at undergraduate levels.

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“…Usage of electronic research papers is currently occupying librarians and publishers in another regard, as they battle to generate meaningful usage statistics for electronic journals (Kidd, 2002). However, as Luther (2000) writes, "Librarians seek to collect usage data that justify the library's investment in electronic resources."…”

Section: E-journal Statisticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Romeo Studies 3

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Oppenheim

Probets

2003

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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This paper is the third in a series of studies emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open-archiving). It considers previous studies of the usage of electronic journal articles through a literature survey. It then reports on the results of a survey of 542 academic authors as to how they expected to use open-access research papers. This data is compared with results from the second of the RoMEO Studies series as to how academics wished to protect their open-access research papers. The ways in which academics expect to use open-access works (including activities, restrictions and conditions) are described. It concludes that academics-as-users do not expect to perform all the activities with open-access research papers that academics-as-authors would allow. Thus the rights metadata proposed by the RoMEO Project would appear to meet the usage requirements of most academics. Previous research paper usage studies The term "usage" is a broad one that can be interpreted in a number of different ways. Copyright law defines a range of usage activities (copy, broadcast, lend, etc.) some of which exclusively belong to the copyright owner, and some that may be performed by non-copyright owners under certain terms and conditions. Lessig (2003) calls the former set of activities "copyright" activities and the latter set, "regulated". There is also a third category of activities with which copyright law does not concern itself and Lessig terms these "unregulated" activities. The usage activities of interest to the RoMEO Project were those performed with open-access electronic research papers that fell into Lessig's "copyright" and "regulated" categories. (For the purposes of this paper, such activities will be referred to as "copyrightregulated"). It was not concerned with unregulated activities. This was because we anticipated that the resulting rights metadata would provide less restriction on use than that provided by copyright law, but more than that provided by simply releasing a work into the public domain. If the RoMEO rights metadata began regulating activities that were unregulated under copyright law, this would go against the spirit of open-access. A search of the literature showed that, to date, investigations into the usage of open-access research papers on eprint archives have tended to focus on the depositing activities of authors, rather than usage by end

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Electronic Journal Usage Statistics in Practice

Cited by 12 publications

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Use and User Perception of Electronic Resources in the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU)

Use and User Perception of Electronic Resources in the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU)

Specialization Impact on Internet Resource Usage: Omani Undergraduate Learner’s Perspectives

Romeo Studies 3

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