2016
DOI: 10.1080/19322909.2016.1191048
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Web-Scale Discovery: Impact on Library Database Web Page Views and Usage

Abstract: Web 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 (2013-2014) saw a decline in web page views of database web pages, journal full-text article requests, and database re… Show more

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“…For one, the lower percentage speaks to the increased effort or knowledge required of users to find and search within a database compared to the ease of locating the library discovery layer. Libraries rely on discovery layers to direct users to database content, and research has generally found that fewer users go directly to individual databases to search (Evelhoch, 2016;Evelhoch, 2018;Way, 2010).…”
Section: Proactive Chat Within Databases Increases Chat Initiationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For one, the lower percentage speaks to the increased effort or knowledge required of users to find and search within a database compared to the ease of locating the library discovery layer. Libraries rely on discovery layers to direct users to database content, and research has generally found that fewer users go directly to individual databases to search (Evelhoch, 2016;Evelhoch, 2018;Way, 2010).…”
Section: Proactive Chat Within Databases Increases Chat Initiationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…He monitored webpage views before and after the implementation of the Primo web-scale discovery service and found that webpage views of database lists by title and by subject declined after Primo adoption. 11 Prior to the widespread adoption of web-scale discovery services by academic libraries that occurred after 2010, several studies on library website usability included sections on a library's database list. Caudle and Schmitz conducted an inventory of electronic journal (e-journal) and database webpages of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) organizations' websites in 2005.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%