Project Muse Statistics

Below are statistics on usage of Project Muse for your campus(es) for the third quarter of 1999: July-September.

Access Stats For Yale University

Filter: log-entries by and {url /journals/*} {host *yale.edu 130.132.* 192.31.236.* 192.26.88.* 192.131.129.* 192.152.148.* 192.152.149.* 192.152.150.* 204.90.81.* 205.167.18.* 205.167.19.* 128.36.* 198.125.138.* 192.168.* 206.32.40.* 206.32.41.* 192.31.2.* 192.35.89.* }

Date Range: Thu 09:49, July 01, 1999  --  Thu 21:40, September 30, 1999
Total Requests: 
3451
Average Requests Per Day: 
38
Total Bytes Requested: 
71876668
Average Bytes Requested Per Day: 
785591

Number of Requests
 
 
  Articles 
  Images    Other    TOCs    Total 
American Imago 2 0 14 1 17
American Jewish History 3 0 11 0 14
American Journal of Mathematics 3 76 16 7 102
American Journal of Philology 2 0 15 3 20
American Quarterly 34 23 42 56 155
Arethusa 14 72 13 0 99
Bulletin of the History of Medicine 9 2 33 4 48
Callaloo 15 1 27 5 48
Configurations 11 0 25 14 50
Diacritics 38 30 55 32 155
ELH 22 5 32 35 94
Eighteenth-Century Life 20 24 12 3 59
Eighteenth-Century Studies 41 58 25 13 137
Human Rights Quarterly 19 2 31 14 66
Imagine 0 0 10 0 10
Journal of Asian American Studies 15 2 11 9 37
Journal of Democracy 6 1 36 4 47
Journal of Early Christian Studies 4 0 17 5 26
Journal of Modern Greek Studies 5 26 23 5 59
Journal of the History of Ideas 25 0 35 18 78
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 7 0 22 5 34
Late Imperial China 1 18 12 2 33
Literature and Medicine 18 58 22 19 117
MLN 9 0 19 12 40
Milton Quarterly 1 0 13 1 15
Modern Fiction Studies 12 1 17 7 37
Modern Judaism 1 0 13 1 15
Modernism/Modernity 32 64 28 41 165
New Literary History 26 2 40 18 86
Other 8 0 394 5 407
Performing Arts Journal 5 0 17 1 23
Philosophy and Literature 33 0 28 26 87
Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 4 0 17 7 28
Postmodern Culture 22 9 17 15 63
Review of Higher Education 0 0 6 6 12
Reviews in American History 106 4 46 30 186
SAIS Review 1 0 15 0 16
Technology and Culture 14 19 15 3 51
The Emily Dickinson Journal 8 0 27 6 41
The Henry James Review 17 9 32 7 65
The Lion and the Unicorn 5 8 6 0 19
The Yale Journal of Criticism 81 126 53 93 353
Theatre Journal 17 2 44 10 73
Theatre Topics 10 16 14 4 44
Theory & Event 1 0 0 0 1
Wide Angle 3 16 16 1 36
World Politics 8 6 56 13 83
Total 738 680 1472 561 3451

It is worth noting that we have intentionally removed the "extraneous" hits which bloat many other sites' reportage. So-called hits to journal icons, buttons, boilerplate information, and the like are removed before statistics are run. This results in anywhere from 5 to 10-to-1 ratios of difference. Because this project is a joint project with Johns Hopkins' Milton Eisenhower Library, we strive to provide librarians with valid statistics rather than artificially inflated ones.

Each row in your stats report represents one journal, with one row labelled "Other" representing all hits to journals materials that could not be resolved to a specific journal. Only those journals which have been accessed during this quarter will be shown. Each column in your stats report represents a breakdown of accesses within a given journal during the quarter. The following legend explains the meaning of each column:

ARTICLES: Article Hits -- this is the number of hits to a given journal's full text articles. This does not include front matter or front pages of the projects, nor does it count illustration pages.

IMAGES: Article-Related Graphics -- this is a count of the number of hits in a given journal in your domain to "meaningful graphics" (logos, buttons, and other graphics characteristics of our site design are not included). For some journals (such as American Journal of Mathematics), "page images" are used because of the complexity of the material; for these, an "image" is equivalent to an "article."

OTHER: A combination of Journal Informational Page Hits and hits to pages that didn't fit the naming-convention pattern of the other three categories. We are striving to pare these down by improving the statistics algorithms, restructuring file naming conventions, and other means. These are still "meaningful" hits, which may include multimedia, active images, pages describing the journal, indexing/abstracting information, even editorial boards.

TOCS: Table of Contents Hits -- this count represents the number of hits to a given journal's tables of contents. Please note that TOCs are volume-level, thus each hit represents between 2 and 6 issues.

Note: If your hits look low, please note that some journals have only one volume of material online, while others may have up to seven years' material included in Project Muse. The number of uses is also dependent on the amount of local publicity indicating Project Muse's availability. We have seen increases of over 600% when only a few instructors on campus begin using Project Muse as a "suggested reading room" for research.

Remember in addition that statistics on electronic journal usage do not correlate easily with reshelving statistics that your library may have gathered on JHUP journals, or periodicals in general.

Search engines and the subject headings added to the TOCs may both add and decrease usage of articles in ways which have not yet been adequately assessed, while technical issues such as local drive caching, the absence of "session tracking" standards on the Web as yet, etc. will further affect the size and quality of these statistics in various ways.


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