Use(less) Data: Discovery, COUNTER, and Music Databases

Pratesi, Angela

doi:10.1080/10588167.2018.1527276

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“…Calvert (2015) finds that ejournal use overall increased and circulation of print materials decreased following an implementation of EDS at Western Carolina University, though without testing the 1 See, for example, Williams and Foster, 2011;Asher et al, 2013;Bonner and Williams, 2016. statistical significance of the changes detected. Angela Pratesi (2018) including changes across libraries using the same discovery service, and the effect of discovery service across publishers. They found that usage of specific publisher content was affected-some negatively and some positively-by the discovery service used, and that libraries with a discovery service in place generally had a greater increase in usage of publisher hosted journal content than libraries without one.…”

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The Impact of Web-Scale Discovery on the Use of Electronic Resources

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Hennesy²,

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2019

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In 2015, the University of California, Berkeley, launched EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), a web-scale discovery tool, with a goal of improving visibility and usage of collections. This study applies linear regression analysis to usage data for ebooks, ejournals, and abstracts and indexing (A&I) databases before and after implementation of EDS in order to identify correlations between the discovery layer and usage of library electronic resources across platforms. Our findings diverge from conclusions drawn in the previous literature that indicate that resource use generally increases after a discovery tool is implemented. We examine data from a longer period of time than the previous literature had, looking for statistically significant changes in resource use. The discovery layer at UC Berkeley did not lead to equal increases across platforms, but rather to a complex array of increases and decreases in use according to a variety of factors.

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