Electronic Journals: A Selected Resource Guide
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Usage studies of electronic journals
A few papers have appeared analyzing the usage of electronic journals. There are really two types of study here: analysis of usage statistics gathered by the providing systems, and user surveys studying the acceptance of e-journals by end-users.
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/00-winter/article1.html
Mercer, Linda S. "Measuring the Use and Value of Electronic Journals and Books." Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Winter 2000. This paper advocates analysis of usage statistics from journal providers to inform journal selection and cancellation decisions.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october99/rusch-feja/10rusch-feja-summary.html
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october99/rusch-feja/10rusch-feja-full-report.html.
Rusch-Feja, Diann, and Uta Siebeky. "Evaluation of Usage and Acceptance of Electronic Journals: Results of an Electronic Survey of Max Planck Society Researchers including Usage Statistics from Elsevier, Springer and Academic Press." D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 10 (October, 1999). The authors carried out an online user survey of scientists, visiting fellows and doctoral candidates at the Max Planck Institutes libraries.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub94abst.html
Luther, Judy. "White Paper on Electronic Journal Usage Statistics." CLIR Publications and Resources, October, 2000, 31 p. This paper reviews what statistics are currently collected and identifies the issues that must be resolved, with suggestions for further discussion. Also available at http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-03/luther.html (Journal of Electronic Publishing, Vol. 6, Issue 3 (March, 2001).
http://www.catchword.com/vl=26861505/cl=23/nw=1/
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Cowhig, Jerry. "Electronic article and journal usage statistics (EAJUS): proposal for an industry-wide standard." Learned Publishing, Vol.14, No.3, p. 233-236. This paper proposes that publishers work together to certify and publish key usage statistics of electronic STM journals.
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/00-fall/refereed.html
Morse, David H. and William A. Clintworth. "Comparing Patterns of Print and Electronic Journal Use in an Academic Health Science Library." Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Fall 2000. A study indicating that users make much higher use of electronic versions of journals than the print ones, when both are available.
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-03/anderson.html
Anderson, Kent; John Sack, Lisa Krauss, and Lori O'Keefe. "Publishing Online-Only Peer-Reviewed Biomedical Literature: Three Years of Citation, Author Perception, and Usage Experience." The Journal of Electronic Publishing, Vol. 6, No. 3 (March, 2001). This paper finds that online-only articles are at least as successful as print-plus-online articles. The criteria for measuring success were the number of times an article was read, cited, used in tenure deliberations, and used in author curricula vitae.
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