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Library Collections Information: Usage Information

Usage Overview

On an ongoing basis, the library collects usage statistics on a variety of materials in order to inform decision making. Please see the below boxes for information. If you wish to see additional usage information, please email us and we'll be happy to accommodate your request. In collecting usage statistics, the library utilizes protocols defined by the Counter Project, a nonprofit initiative designed to create standards and accountability in vendors' reporting usage information to libraries.

Please note that Greer Music Library is now being centrally managed by the staff based in Shain Library. For a dashboard of current usage statistics for Greer Music Library, please click this link.

For a list of FAQs regarding the collection and budget issues, please see this link (available to anyone at Connecticut College who has the link). 

Usage Information

The graph below illustrates the various costs per full-text download of several large journal packages, which are large bundles of journal subscriptions that the library obtains at a discounted price. To arrive at the figure, we divide the cost we pay in a year by the number of full-text downloads of the content in that package.

The graph below illustrates the various costs per full-text download of several large journal packages (bundles of journal subscriptions that the library obtains at a discounted price). The figure shows the year-over-year fluctuations in cost per download (the cost we pay in a year by the number of full-text downloads of the content in that package) by package.

The graph below illustrates the various costs per search of some of our databases. To arrive at the figure, we divide the cost we pay in a year by the number of searches of that database. These are the lowest cost-per-search databases; in other words, these represent some of our best values!

Here are the number of searches of some key databases for the academic year 2021-22 (with 2020-21 figures in parentheses, along with the percentage change year over year):

Arts & Humanities:

  • Art & Architecture Source: 333 (524, down 57%)
  • ArtSTOR: 7,216 (8,507, down 18%)
  • Avery Index (architecture): 114 (181, down 58%)
  • Early English Books Online (EEBO): 1,245 (828, up 33%) 
  • Film & Television Index: 290 (173, up 40%)
  • L'Année Philologique (classics): 183 (305, down 67%) 
  • LLBA (linguistics): 1,234 (871, up 29%)
  • Literature Online (LION): 1,422 (967, up 31%) 
  • MLA International Bibliography: 728 (1,183, down 63%) 
  • Performing Arts Database: 1,283 (946, down 26%) 
  • Religion Database: 1,281 (829, down 35%) 
  • RILM (music): 282 (302, down 7%)
  • Vogue Archive: 1,256 (856, down 32%) 

Data/Statistics:

  • Social Explorer: 438 (new resource)
  • Statista: 1,745 (new resource)

General:

  • Academic OneFile: 1,485 (1,846, down 24%)
  • Academic Search Premier: 2,512 (2,630, down 5%)
  • JSTOR: 14,102 (23,967, down 70%) 
  • Nexis Uni: 1,289 (2,272, down 76%) 
  • Project Muse: 439 (303, up 31%) 

Science & Mathematics:

  • Environment Complete: 475 (639, down 35%)
  • MathSciNet: 3,978 (3,206, up 19%)
  • Reaxys: 101 
  • SciFinder Scholar: 34 
  • Scopus: 4,576 (4,468, down 2%) 

Social Sciences:

  • EconLit: 436 (549, down 26%) 
  • GenderWatch: 1,385 (992, up 28%)
  • Hein Online: 285 (363, down 27%)
  • PsychInfo: 12,772 (20,299, down 59%)
  • Political Science Complete: 601 (702, down 17%) 
  • SocIndex: 2,767 (2,924, down 6%) 
  • Women's Studies International: 294 (354, down 20%)

 

Business:

  • ABI/Inform: 1,077
  • ProQuest One Business: 1,306