Indicator 10.4
Electronic Journal Usage within the UC System, 2005-06 to 2007-08
| 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Electronic Journals Represented | 5,303 | 6,408 | 6,718 |
| Successful Full-text Article Requests from Selected Electronic Journals | 16,349,822 | 22,216,183 | 22,683,504 |
Electronic journals are digital publications that are licensed by the UC libraries and made available to students and faculty for online reading, downloading and saving.
A successful full-text article request is a download of an article from an electronic journal onto a personal computer or other device. Students and faculty can read, download, save and print hundreds of thousands of scholarly articles using their own networked computers or library workstations.
The numbers above, while large, are incomplete. They represent less than one third of the journals licensed systemwide by all 10 campuses. In addition, they do not include downloads of articles in journals that are not licensed by all 10 campuses.
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is still in the process of determining its methodology for collecting these types of data. Once this is settled, it will be possible to provide comparative statistics across institutions.
Source: California Digital Library.
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