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Academic Citation Practice: A Sinking Sheep?
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Rekdal, Ole Bjørn – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2014
An explosion in access to electronic databases and digital information is changing the way we view source citation. While the original purpose of referencing--showing the reader exactly where the author got his or her input--is clearly more important than ever, citation is increasingly taking on other roles, ones that have little to do with good…
Descriptors: Citations (References), Citation Indexes, Electronic Libraries, Electronic Publishing
For Electronic Journals, Total Downloads Can Predict Number of Users
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Davis, Philip M. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2004
Results from two multiple regression models involving HighWire journal subscriptions in 2003 for 16 participating universities in the United States, United Kingdom, and Sweden indicate a highly predictive relationship between the number of article downloads and the number of users--meaning that the size of a user population can be estimated by…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Journals, Foreign Countries, Correlation
OhioLINK Electronic Journal Use at Ohio State University
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Connell, Tschera Harkness; Rogers, Sally A.; Diedrichs, Carol Pitts – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2005
A five-question survey randomly presented to users at Ohio State University (OSU) as they viewed articles in OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center (EJC) in fall 2002 probed the user's status, academic unit, reason for viewing, path to the article, and frequency of EJC use. Usage by faculty and graduate students, by frequent users, and by those in…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Electronic Journals, College Faculty, Undergraduate Students