Link Resolver stats overview for first half of 2008

Just a brief glimpse of the usage statistics for SFX year-to-date. See the full reports on the Library Intranet (JustUs), password required.

Requests 207247 (number of clicks on 'Find It' button) - up 15% on 2007

Click Throughs 161891 (the number of times Link Resolver either found an e-holding OR user clicked on the 'Search Catalogue' link when no e-holding found) - up 11% on 2007

The databases providing the most link resolution requests are:

• CINAHL
• PsycInfo
• Google Scholar
• Web of Knowledge/Web of Science
• Medline

In addition to ejournal holdings our link resolver initiated 23850 catalogue searches and delivered 2974 ebooks

The top epublishers were:

• Elsevier
• Gale
• Proquest
• Blackwell
• Free Ejournals
• Informaworld
• Springer
• Wiley
• Ovid
• Sage

The five most popular journals were:

• Marine ecology progress series
• The Australian journal of rural health
• Aquaculture
• Science
• Marine biology

Approximately 70% of requests resulted in a fulltext service