1. June 27, 2005 ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne Usage Statistics on BioOne Todd Carpenter Director of Business Development BioOne www.BioOne.org

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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

6. June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne BioOne Institutional Reports

7. June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne Sample Usage Report

8. 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

9. June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne Usage by Institution Type Total Downloads: January - December, 2004

10. June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne Overall Site Usage

11. June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne Hits by Journal

12. June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne Searches on BioOne

13. 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 http://scholar.google.comhttp://scholar.google.com  BioOne began allowing full-text crawling of the BioOne database in November of 2003  To what extent has Google effected BioOne’s usage?

14. June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne 2005 Referring URLs Google 96% All Others 4%

15. June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne Google Crawling Shut Down Google 66% All Others 34%

16. June 27, 2005ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne Hits by Journal - Effect of Blocking Google Crawling Google Crawling Blocked Traffic Down 50%

17. 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%  OA1 - 70.1% increase in usage  OA2 - 77.4% increase in usage  OA3 - 137.7% increase in usage

18. 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.

19. June 27, 2005 ALA Conference, ALCTS - © 2005 BioOne Thank you! Todd Carpenter Todd@arl.org BioOne www.BioOne.org Photos courtesy of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - Central Library Photo Collection