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Web-Scale Discovery: Impact on Library Database Web Page Views and Usage

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Journal of Web Librarianship, (June 2016)
DOI: 10.1080/19322909.2016.1191048

Abstract

ABSTRACTWeb page views of databases by title and databases by subject pages, in conjunction with COUNTER Database Report 1 and Journal Report 1 statistics, were examined to determine what impact a migration to Primo, a Web-scale discovery layer, had at Central Washington University Brooks Library. The analysis determined that the first year post-migration (2015) compared to the two years pre-migration (2013–14) saw a decline in Web page views of database Web pages, journal full-text article requests, and database record views and result clicks. The implementation of Primo thus had a noticeable negative impact on both direct database access and overall electronic resource usage during the first year post-migration.

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