Project Muse Statistics

Below are statistics on usage of Project Muse for your campus(es) for the first quarter of 1999, January, February, March.

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: Fri 13:35, January 01, 1999  --  Wed 20:16, March 31, 1999

Total Requests: 

4155 

Average Requests Per Day: 

47 

Total Bytes Requested: 

98871213 

Average Bytes Requested Per Day: 

1107441 

Number of Requests
 

 

Articles

Images

Other

TOCs

Total

American Imago

14

7

29

6

56

American Jewish History

4

0

16

2

22

American Journal of Mathematics

6

16

11

2

35

American Journal of Philology

6

3

26

2

37

American Quarterly

40

16

59

16

131

Arethusa

4

0

19

2

25

Bulletin of the History of Medicine

33

4

55

21

113

Callaloo

40

48

29

5

122

Configurations

19

2

13

3

37

Diacritics

36

35

105

14

190

ELH

43

0

27

18

88

Eighteenth-Century Life

3

13

15

3

34

Eighteenth-Century Studies

9

16

25

4

54

Human Rights Quarterly

54

4

41

15

114

Imagine

52

0

17

0

69

Journal of Asian American Studies

2

9

5

0

16

Journal of Democracy

74

9

61

29

173

Journal of Early Christian Studies

9

0

16

6

31

Journal of Modern Greek Studies

9

44

13

4

70

Journal of the History of Ideas

23

5

27

20

75

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal

14

0

22

10

46

Late Imperial China

0

0

10

3

13

Literature and Medicine

17

10

32

16

75

MLN

23

0

26

11

60

Milton Quarterly

22

4

35

25

86

Modern Fiction Studies

29

3

18

6

56

Modern Judaism

6

0

15

6

27

Modernism/Modernity

17

5

22

10

54

New Literary History

54

70

40

25

189

Other

73

14

638

47

772

Performing Arts Journal

6

18

27

3

54

Philosophy and Literature

34

0

45

27

106

Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology

3

0

7

3

13

Postmodern Culture

51

29

46

59

185

Review of Higher Education

7

1

9

6

23

Reviews in American History

85

4

60

26

175

SAIS Review

12

0

10

4

26

The Emily Dickinson Journal

2

0

3

1

6

The Henry James Review

21

0

33

16

70

The Lion and the Unicorn

0

0

7

1

8

The Yale Journal of Criticism

57

73

78

75

283

Theatre Journal

12

1

22

8

43

Theatre Topics

4

11

4

0

19

Theory & Event

4

0

0

0

4

Wide Angle

2

0

14

2

18

World Politics

73

76

71

32

252

Total

1108

550

1903

594

4155

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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Last modified: 6/9/99

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