Preliminary observations of data captured from the survey between
February and June 2010 illustrate the expansion in surveyed content:
2004–05
Consortial only:
• Locally loaded e-journals
2010–11
Both consortial and individually licensed content:
• E-journals • Library catalogs
• E-books, (NetLibrary, ebrary, • Reference materials
but not books locally loaded • Institutional repositories
on Scholars Portal*) • Other services (e.g., interlibrary loan,
• Abstracts and indexes Ulrich’s, Journal Citation Reports,
• Dissertations RefWorks)
*Work is underway to create SFX targets for e-book collections loaded on
Scholars Portal.
Survey Findings: Highlights
from 2004–05 results
From May 2004 to April 2005, a total of 20,293 usable cases were collected
from the MINES for Libraries‚ survey from 16 institutions. Analysis
revealed that:
• The majority of the uses of the Scholars Portal resources are from the
sciences and the medical health field
• Close to half of the use made of the Scholars Portal resources is by
undergraduate students (46%)
• Almost half of the use made of the Scholars Portal resources is from off-
campus locations (45%)
• The largest portion of the use of the Scholars Portal resources is for
purposes of coursework (42%) with sponsored research representing an
important second-highest category of use (26%)
OCUL institutions have used the results of the 2004–05 survey to justify
budget allocations within and across institutions, for peer-group comparisons,
and for understanding how MINES for Libraries® data relate to external
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