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Full-Text Retrievals and EBSCO Discovery Service: Assessing Usage of E-Journals across Multiple Platforms
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Robins, Simon – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2022
This study utilizes COUNTER 5 data from the University of Dayton (UD) to measure full-text retrievals of e-journal articles from five major academic journal publishers (Taylor & Francis, SAGE, Oxford, Wiley, and Springer). Usage data from these publishers' e-journals within EBSCO is compared to the same content when accessed from publisher…
Descriptors: Electronic Journals, Electronic Publishing, Information Retrieval, Databases
Usability Testing for e-Resource Discovery: How Students Find and Choose e-Resources Using Library Web Sites
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Fry, Amy; Rich, Linda – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2011
In early 2010, library staff at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) in Ohio designed and conducted a usability study of key parts of the library web site, focusing on the web pages generated by the library's electronic resources management system (ERM) that list and describe the library's databases. The goal was to discover how users find and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Databases, Web Sites
Library on the Go: A Focus Group Study of the Mobile Web and the Academic Library
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Seeholzer, Jamie; Salem, Joseph A., Jr. – College & Research Libraries, 2011
This study explores student use of the mobile Web in general and expectations for an academic library's mobile Web site in particular through focus groups with students at Kent State University. Participants expressed more interest in using their mobile Web device to interact with library resources and services than anticipated. Results showed an…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Web Sites, Academic Libraries, Internet
Measuring Consortium Impact on User Perceptions: OhioLINK and LibQUAL+[TM]
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Gatten, Jeffrey N. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2004
What is the impact of an academic library consortium on the perceptions of library services experienced by users of the member institutions' libraries? What is the impact of an academic library consortium on the perceptions of library services experienced by users of the member institutions libraries? In 2002 and 2003, OhioLINK (Ohio's consortium…
Descriptors: Consortia, Library Services, Academic Libraries, Benchmarking
University of Cincinnati, Central Library, Computerized Bibliographic Retrieval Services: Evaluative Report, July 1979-August 1980.
Roberts, Randall L.; And Others – 1980
This 2-part report describes the present scope of the University of Cincinnati Central Library bibliographic database retrieval service. The first section discusses searcher training, records maintenance, search aids, expansion of database service, searcher time, user satisfaction, and promotion. The second presents statistical data related to…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Databases, Evaluation, Higher Education
OhioLINK: A Statewide System Raises New Issues and Opportunities for Cooperation.
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Kohl, David F. – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1994
Describes OhioLINK, a statewide academic library automation project being developed for state colleges, selected private universities, and the state library. Topics addressed include cost savings; centralized funding; vendor selection; bibliographic and circulation information; commercial databases; cooperation between vendors and librarians; and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Records, Computer Networks, Cooperative Programs