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A Hybrid Model For Managing Standard Usage Data: Principles For E-Resource Statistics Workflows, Amy Fry
A Hybrid Model For Managing Standard Usage Data: Principles For E-Resource Statistics Workflows, Amy Fry
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The migration from print to electronic collections over the last two decades has created a new environment for gathering and assessing collection use. Circulation and reshelving statistics tabulated in-house for journal and index volumes have been replaced by sophisticated, automatic monthly recordings of logins, searches, and full-text downloads provided by database and e-journal vendors. Because libraries often subscribe to thousands of titles from hundreds of sources, they have become awash in a flood of usage data that has proven difficult to collect, manage and assess, despite its value.
An early assessment and explication of the problems with usage data led …