Assessing Online Use
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Rick Ralston
- Source
- ResearcherID
- Subject
- Health (social science)
business.industry
Computer science
Sample (statistics)
Library and Information Sciences
law.invention
Collection development
World Wide Web
law
Statistics
Web application
Hypertext
Graphics
business
GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries)
Reliability (statistics)
- Language
- ISSN
- 1542-4073
1542-4065
Many library Web sites feature hypertext lists of their online journals. This article explores the reliability of usage statistics generated by these Web-based journal lists. Reliability is assessed by comparing the number of journal title accesses from the list with the number of articles downloaded per title supplied by electronic journal vendors. The study includes 468 titles from three different vendors. While a correlation in use from the two different sources was found, this sample's usage counts from the online journal list were not accurate enough to use with cancellation decisions. doi:10.1300/J383v04n01_06