Project Muse Statistics

Below are statistics on usage of Project Muse for your campus(es) for the second quarter of 1999: April-June.

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 01:04, April 01, 1999 -- Wed 20:33, June 30, 1999

Total Requests:	4527
Average Requests Per Day:	50
Total Bytes Requested:	87413101
Average Bytes Requested Per Day:	963012

Number of Requests

	Articles	Images	Other	TOCs	Total
American Imago	6	0	51	6	63
American Jewish History	3	0	38	2	43
American Journal of Mathematics	1	8	32	1	42
American Journal of Philology	7	2	55	3	67
American Quarterly	26	3	73	23	125
Arethusa	3	0	42	0	45
Bulletin of the History of Medicine	18	4	71	11	104
Callaloo	33	5	66	34	138
Configurations	6	34	31	0	71
Diacritics	29	13	111	28	181
ELH	15	0	56	17	88
Eighteenth Century Life	3	6	40	5	54
Eighteenth Century Studies	14	12	42	4	72
Human Rights Quarterly	45	26	68	37	176
Imagine	7	0	18	0	25
Journal of Asian American Studies	15	8	20	7	50
Journal of Democracy	87	6	87	51	231
Journal of Early Christian Studies	5	0	32	2	39
Journal of Modern Greek Studies	17	24	36	4	81
Journal of the History of Ideas	13	10	44	17	84
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal	32	0	43	19	94
Late Imperial China	2	0	32	0	34
Literature and Medicine	17	0	69	22	108
MLN	19	12	45	14	90
Milton Quarterly	0	0	35	1	36
Modern Fiction Studies	30	7	40	13	90
Modern Judaism	2	0	34	0	36
Modernism/Modernity	21	56	37	13	127
New Literary History	28	5	44	11	88
Other	18	1	570	20	609
Performing Arts Journal	3	5	55	5	68
Philosophy and Literature	40	10	61	19	130
Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology	11	0	29	10	50
Postmodern Culture	27	22	66	24	139
Review of Higher Education	11	8	22	15	56
Reviews in American History	68	0	76	33	177
SAIS Review	8	1	34	4	47
Technology and Culture	2	0	41	8	51
The Emily Dickinson Journal	4	8	33	4	49
The Henry James Review	11	0	46	7	64
The Lion and the Unicorn	5	0	14	1	20
The Yale Journal of Criticism	23	33	64	48	168
Theatre Journal	12	18	37	18	85
Theatre Topics	5	13	17	1	36
Theory & Event	1	0	1	1	3
Wide Angle	2	12	33	2	49
World Politics	63	63	80	38	244
Total	818	435	2671	603	4527

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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