Title
Knowing Where They Went: Six Years of Online Access Statistics via the Online Catalog for Federal Government Information
Publication Date
2011
Document Type
Article
Organizational Units
University Libraries
Keywords
Online public access catalogs, URL, Federal information, Government information
Abstract
As federal government information is increasingly migrating to online formats, libraries are providing links to this content via URLs or persistent URLs (PURLs) in their online public access catalogs (OPACs). Clickthrough statistics that accumulated as users visited links to online content in the University of Denver’s library OPAC were gathered over a six-year period and were analyzed. Among the conclusions were that DU users prefer online content over print for both newer and older documents and that there is great benefit in adding URLs above and beyond the URLs supplied by GPO cataloging.
Publication Statement
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Recommended Citation
Brown, C. C. (2011). Knowing where they went: Six years of online access statistics via the online catalog for federal government information. College & Research Libraries 72(1), 43-61. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl-68r1