1. Measuring Trends In Electronic Resources Usage Assessing Database Access at CSUSM Hua Yi --hyi@csusm.edu Jackie Borin – jborin@csusm.edu

2. Why Big investment – material, $, staff How are we doing – self assessment Accountability – external responsibility Identify trends –prepare for the Future Goal – analyze usage and users

3. Study Setting CSU San Marcos Founded: 1989 Students: 7700 Programs: 4 colleges + 1 coming Degrees: 22 bachelors, 9 masters 1 EDD, 13 teaching credentials

4. Scope Time – 2004 and 2005 Level – Level I Platforms: SFX, Webhits, databases Access and Usage patterns

5. How Much Use? platform 20042005 Web Hits219,937226,946 SFX135,583158,607 EbscoHost134,490116,825 CSA163,077264,834 JSTOR183,100222,264

6. How Much Use?

7. Factors Weighted # of Users – FTES Content controlled Use/cost ratio

8. FTES Factor AccessChange ratioChange/ftes Web Hits3%1% SFX17%14% EbscoHost-13%-15% CSA62%59% JSTOR21%19%

9. Content Factor Database Change/title Change/title/ftes JSTOR15%12% Ebsco-session-29%-31% Ebsco-session time 80%76% CSA16%13%

10. Budget Factor - consortia Average Cost per Use Individual uses in million $0.33 $0.24 $0.15 $0.13 $0.10 $0.11 Usage Average cost per usage

11. Budget Factor - local Average Cost per Use Individual uses $0.07 Usage Average cost per usage $0.05

12. Patterns When – month, day, hour Where – on vs. off campus What -- subjects

13. Usage by Month

14. Day of Week

15. Open & After Hour After hour Open hour JSTOR EbscoHost 2004 2005 After hour Open hour After hour Open hour After hour Open hour

16. On vs. Off Campus Off Campus On Campus Off Campus On Campus Off Campus On Campus JSTOR EbscoHost 20052004 2004/05

17. Usage By Subject EbscoHost JSTOR CSA

18. Findings Use –A lot of use –Usage increase Worth investment – cost per use decline Users –Moving to off campus slowly –Moving to subject specific sources

19. Trends Library e-resources growth Campus courses move online

23. Online Course Trend ( spring semesters ) 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 405335 41 159 150 314

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