Wiley Usage Statistics

Posted on August 6, 2009
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For anyone who is interested in usage statistics, the following message from Wiley may be of interest:We would like to provide you with an update about Usage Data on Wiley InterScience and in particular the effect of some changes which were implemented by Google which would have affected your usage data during May and June 2009. In addition we would like to inform you about some differences in the way Google indexes Wiley InterScience compared to how it indexed Blackwell Synergy. You may find that these search engine activities have had an effect on the usage data for ex-Blackwell journals this year compared to last year for your institution.

In May 2009 Google implemented a policy to restrict linking to content with abstracts. As a significant portion of Wiley-Blackwell content does not have formal abstracts, such as Backfile PDFs and Online Books, and because this content could not easily be distinguished in our service, Google excluded all Wiley InterScience content from its search results. As Google is a key driver of users to content this had a significant impact on usage of our journals in May and June 2009. We have now been able to resolve this issue by helping Google to distinguish between articles with and without abstracts. We can confirm that July usage on Wiley InterScience is now back up to a level comparable with that of April.

Wiley InterScience interacts very differently with Google compared to the way that Synergy did. The main difference is the crawling of primary content. Google’s web crawlers were allowed to crawl the blackwell-synergy.com web site directly whereas for Wiley InterScience content an agreement is in place for Google to start from the CrossRef website and index each article by DOI. This difference affects the ranking of our content in Google search results which consequently affects the discoverability and resulting usage data for former Blackwell titles, although it is not possible to exactly quantify it. The effect varies very much by customer and by content.

Another difference is that Synergy allowed referrals from Google to go directly to the full text of an article. For Wiley InterScience, all users are initially directed to an abstract or some other landing page. As a consequence, on Wiley InterScience users referred from Google may review the article abstract and choose not to view the full text, possibly creating a decline in full text views. Also, Synergy supported the federated search protocol Z39.50 which allowed content to be included in library search results and so help direct users towards relevant articles. Wiley InterScience does not currently support Z39.50.

We are aware that there are improvements that we can make to our online service which will help to increase the discoverability of our full text content and these are central priorities for our online developments.
In addition, we would like to inform you that the Searches count and Article Select count have recently been removed in error from usage reports on Wiley InterScience. We are working to restore these. Based on customer feedback we have aimed to simplify the monthly user activity report, reducing the number of items and renaming ‘hits’ to be ‘page views’.

Change in Publisher

Posted on August 6, 2009
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The following titles will no longer be published by Cambridge University as from 2010. Both titles will move to Taylor & Francis:

Journal of Systematic Palaeontology and Systematics and Biodiversity.

BioSocieties will move to Palgrave in January 2010.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

E-Resources Unit on Twitter

Posted on July 29, 2009
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Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/e_resources for quick updates on e-resources at UF.

Proquest Enhancements

Posted on July 28, 2009
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Here’s an update from Proquest on some enhancements to their interface:

We added some new functionality to the ProQuest Central interface on Monday, July 27.

Inside the new Browse tabs and search enhancements:

Additional Points of Access
ProQuest Central customers have indicated the desire to show the various full-edition databases found within ProQuest Central. While many customers had already set up this level of access, this account configuration will now be standard for all ProQuest Central customers. ProQuest Central users will now be able to search ProQuest Central in its entirety, or quickly jump into any of the 28 full-edition databases found within ProQuest Central such as ABI/INFORM, Research Library, Health and Medical Complete and more!

Journal/Publisher 2010 price freeze info on MLA website

Posted on July 27, 2009
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MLA’s Ad Hoc Committee for Advocating Scholarly Communications has compiled a listing of journals that have frozen their pricing at 2009 prices. The committee thanks the many members of the library and scholarly communications communities who contributed to the list. The committee will continue to periodically update the list, which is available on MLANET:

http://www.mlanet.org/resources/publish/sc_2010-prices.html

E-Journal Updates – Change in Publisher

Posted on July 27, 2009
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Several of our subscribed titles have experienced a change in publisher. The previous and future publishers, along with the effective date of the change, can be displayed by clicking here.

Two Interesting Sessions from ALA

Posted on July 21, 2009
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“Leveraging Institutional Repositories to Support Your Institution’s Strategic Mission”

Presenters: Marilyn Moody & Richard Clement

- Presentation by Marilyn Moody, Dean of Libraries at Boise State University
http://works.bepress.com/marilyn_moody/13/
- Presentation by Richard Clement, Dean of Libraries at Utah State University
http://works.bepress.com/richard_clement/4/

“The Library as Publisher, Ready or Not”

Presenters: Alison Denby and Tim Tamminga

- Presentation by Alison Denby, Publisher at bepress, and Tim Tamminga, VP Global Sales.
http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/presentations/13/

RE: E-Book not found in Mango

Posted on June 24, 2009
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FCLA discovered that the problem was a typo in the dgraph refresh script. They have fixed the typo and started the refresh. You should being seeing fresh data now.

Thanks to Rich and Jimmie for their assistance with this problem.

Password Protected Posts

Posted on June 24, 2009
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From time to time I may post something here that I share on a more limited basis (in other words, keep it in the library) than I normally would.  Just let me know if you need the password and I’ll be glad to share it with you.

Protected: Review of Low-Use Springer Titles, June 2009

Posted on June 24, 2009
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