Project Muse Statistics

Below are statistics on usage of Project Muse for your campus(es) for the second quarter of 1998, April, May, and June.

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.


Access Stats For Yale University

Filter: log-entries by and {url /journals/*} /*} {host *yale.edu 130.132.* 191.31.236.* 192.26.88.* 192.131.129.* 192.152.148.* 192.152.149.* 192.152.150.* 204.90.81.* 205.167.18.* 205.167.19.* }

Date Range: Wed 00:39, April 01, 1998 -- Tue 13:49, June 30, 1998

Total Requests:

2280

Average Requests Per Day:

25

Total Bytes Requested:

54100463

Average Bytes Requested Per Day:

597748

Number of Requests

 

Articles

Images

Other

TOCs

Total

All Journals Index Page

0

0

137

0

137

American Imago

9

18

16

7

50

American Jewish History

13

9

4

5

31

American Journal of Mathematics

2

20

2

1

25

American Journal of Philology

0

0

1

1

2

American Quarterly

13

7

17

5

42

Arethusa

3

16

7

2

28

Bulletin of the History of Medicine

11

0

33

10

54

Callaloo

39

27

23

12

101

Configurations

7

4

8

3

22

Diacritics

4

2

4

1

11

ELH

11

8

22

9

50

Eighteenth-Century Life

1

0

6

2

9

Eighteenth-Century Studies

1

0

9

5

15

Human Rights Quarterly

14

4

9

4

31

Imagine

0

0

6

0

6

Journal of Asian American Studies

2

0

3

2

7

Journal of Democracy

47

7

26

10

90

Journal of Early Christian Studies

2

0

1

2

5

Journal of Modern Greek Studies

11

10

4

8

33

Journal of the History of Ideas

6

6

7

7

26

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal

11

0

6

5

22

Late Imperial China

4

1

7

4

16

Literature and Medicine

5

0

7

12

24

MLN

19

0

15

10

44

Milton Quarterly

6

0

5

4

15

Modern Fiction Studies

3

0

2

0

5

Modern Judaism

2

0

1

0

3

Modernism/Modernity

16

49

15

13

93

New Literary History

11

0

7

7

25

Other

31

26

144

3

204

PAJ

1

0

5

1

7

Philosophy and Literature

32

0

24

15

71

Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology

0

0

6

0

6

Postmodern Culture

74

182

173

26

455

Review of Higher Education

6

0

4

7

17

Reviews in American History

84

0

16

22

122

SAIS Review

8

0

3

6

17

The Emily Dickinson Journal

2

0

4

2

8

The Henry James Review

5

0

10

2

17

The Lion and the Unicorn

0

0

1

0

1

The Yale Journal of Criticism

21

85

20

31

157

Theatre Journal

8

11

13

4

36

Theatre Topics

6

0

2

1

9

Wide Angle

4

15

5

4

28

World Politics

19

61

15

8

103

Total

574

568

855

283

2280
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