June 27, 2005 ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne Usage Statistics on BioOne Todd Carpenter Director of Business Development BioOne
June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne Overview Brief Introduction to BioOne Usage Statistics at BioOne Growth and changes in overall use Institutional usage Referring URLs Open Access usage
June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne What is BioOne? Non-profit collaboration of scholars, librarians, societies and a commercial printer Aggregation of 81 research journals from 67 publishers Covers the fields of Zoology, Botany, Ecology, and Environmental Sciences Mission: To work collectively to preserve cost effective access to high-quality scientific literature published by not-for-profit organizations
June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne BioOne Founding Partners American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) The University of Kansas The Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) Allen Press, Inc.
June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne BioOne Usage Reports COUNTER compliant since 2003 JR1: Number of Successful Full-Text Article Requests by Month and Journal (Compliant) JR3: Number of Successful Item Requests and Turnaways by Month, Journal and Page Type (* - BioOne does not track Turnaways) JR4: Total Searches Run by Month and Service (* - BioOne has no other Service) Customizable, download-able tables Reports on: Per journal and per month article downloads Search topics, phrases, words Day & Time Referring URLs Non-article pages usage
June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne BioOne Institutional Reports
June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne Sample Usage Report
June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne Average Institutional Usage Jan-Dec 2004 InstitutionSessionsHits$/Download Not-for-profit7135,218$1.13 Government 1,8258,415$1.05 Community College 2081,749$0.23 Academic (All) 2,06716,707$0.84 Bacc/Assoc 7016,284$0.64 Masters 6965,362$1.24 Doc/Res 3,75630,862$0.50
June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne Usage by Institution Type Total Downloads: January - December, 2004
June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne Overall Site Usage
June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne Hits by Journal
June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne Searches on BioOne
June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne You may have heard of “Google” Increasingly (and despite librarians best efforts) many students, researchers and scholars turn to Google as a gateway for information. Increased since then the development of Google Scholar BioOne began allowing full-text crawling of the BioOne database in November of 2003 To what extent has Google effected BioOne’s usage?
June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne 2005 Referring URLs Google 96% All Others 4%
June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne Google Crawling Shut Down Google 66% All Others 34%
June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne Hits by Journal - Effect of Blocking Google Crawling Google Crawling Blocked Traffic Down 50%
June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne Open Access Journals on BioOne BioOne is host to two OA journals and one OA e-book. Usage of these is increasing at a faster rate than non-OA titles. Average BioOne journal usage increased 54.9% OA % increase in usage OA % increase in usage OA % increase in usage
June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne BioOne Statistics into the Future Continued adherence to standards as the develop and change. Quickly include additional information in our reporting that librarians identify as important Transparency - BioOne will continue to share our data widely both among participating publishers and the library community. Highlight potential emerging trends that we find from an aggregator’s perspective.
June 27, 2005 ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne Thank you! Todd Carpenter BioOne Photos courtesy of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - Central Library Photo Collection