Discovery or Displacement? A Large-scale Longitudinal Study of the Effect of Discovery Services on Online Journal Usage

Authors

Michael Levine-Clark, University of DenverFollow

Publication Date

2013

Document Type

Article

Abstract

In this first large-scale study of the effect of discovery systems on electronic resource usage, the authors present initial findings on how these systems alter online journal usage by academic library researchers. The study examines usage of content hosted by four major academic journal publishers at 24 libraries that have implemented one of the major discovery systems, EBSCO's EDS, Ex Libris’s Primo, OCLC’s Worldcat Local, or SerialsSolutions’s Summon. A statistically rigorous comparison of COUNTER-compliant journal usage at each library from the 12 months before and after implementation will determine the degree to which usage rises or falls after discovery tool implementation and address rumors that discovery tools differ in their impact on electronic resource usage.

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Recommended Citation

Levine-Clark, M., McDonald, J., & Price, J. (2013). Discovery or displacement? A large-scale longitudinal study of the effect of discovery services on online journal usage. Proceedings of the Charleston Library Conference, Charleston, S.C., 2013: 9-16. https://doi.org/10.5703/1288284315331