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What can we measure?– Collections:
growth, overlap, use, non-use
– Service use: patterns, differences between schools
– Demand: met and un-met
– Users: demographics, interests
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Tool– RACER Usage
Stats– Illumina Logs
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2002-2004 Academic Press Elsevier APA ACS Berkeley Cambridge Emerald Kluwer Oxford MUSE Springer Wiley
2004-2005 Taylor and Francis SAGE Blackwell IEEE
Royal Society of Chemistry
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Current Collection Size:
7,375 Journals
8.7 million articles
Current Collection Size:
7,375 Journals
8.7 million articles
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Article Downloads
july 2002 - june 2005toronto 3,567,865 32.69%waterloo 1,053,530 9.65%guelph 846,129 7.75%ottawa 776,910 7.12%western 712,242 6.53%york 646,119 5.92%trent 493,234 4.52%brock 462,398 4.24%carleton 440,817 4.04%mcmaster 437,115 4.01%queens 411,584 3.77%windsor 352,208 3.23%ryerson 323,293 2.96%laurier 169,920 1.56%laurentian 122,639 1.12%lakehead 62,093 0.57%nipissing 18,882 0.17%uoit 15,633 0.14%total 10,912,611 100.00%
Top Ten Downloads
Downloads Title(Publisher)87877 Lancet, The(Elsevier Science)85393 Social Science and Medicine(Elsevier Science)81374 Phytochemistry(Elsevier Science)
79992Journal of Personality and Social Psychology(American Psychological Association)
56511 Animal Behaviour(Elsevier Science)50223 Personality and Individual Differences(Elsevier Science)49551 Sex Roles(Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers)
43775 Developmental Psychology(American Psychological Association)
36867International Journal of Eating Disorders(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company)
36699 Child Abuse and Neglect(Elsevier Science)
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