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 RLI 271 44 The Value of Electronic Resources: Measuring the Impact of Networked Electronic Services ( C O N T I N U E D ) AUGUST 2010 RESEARCH LIBRARY ISSUES: A BIMONTHLY REPORT FROM ARL, CNI, AND SPARC