Project Muse Statistics

Below are statistics on usage of Project Muse for your campus(es) for the fourth quarter of 1999: October-December.

Access Stats For Yale University

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Date Range: Fri 05:47, October 01, 1999  --  Fri 02:28, December 31, 1999
Total Requests: 
 5105
Average Requests Per Day: 
56
Total Bytes Requested: 
114340721
Average Bytes Requested Per Day: 
125782

Number of Requests
 
 
 Articles 
  Images    Other    TOCs    Total 
American Imago  6 14 24 4 48
American Jewish History  12 0 30 21 63
American Journal of Mathematics  0 44 23 4 71
American Journal of Philology  16 5 22 2 45
American Quarterly  91 24 71 52 238
Arethusa  9 38 26 3 76
Bulletin of the History of Medicine  18 0 64 10 92
Callaloo  47 25 55 30 157
Configurations  27 40 38 10 115
Diacritics  13 8 39 12 72
ELH  26 14 47 19 106
Eighteenth-Century Life  11 23 22 3 59
Eighteenth-Century Studies  25 53 55 10 143
Human Rights Quarterly  59 0 39 84 182
Imagine  1 0 22 0 23
Journal of Asian American Studies  22 1 21 9 53
Journal of Democracy  185 33 77 87 382
Journal of Early Christian Studies  10 0 31 24 65
Journal of Modern Greek Studies  20 35 29 10 94
Journal of the History of Ideas  24 0 60 37 121
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal  32 1 49 15 97
Late Imperial China  1 0 21 10 32
Literature and Medicine  7 0 29 18 54
MLN  52 23 39 10 124
Milton Quarterly  13 0 34 16 63
Modern Fiction Studies  27 1 20 10 58
Modern Judaism  8 0 19 7 34
Modernism/Modernity  20 22 38 18 98
New Literary History  21 2 32 13 68
Other  40 0 583 31 654
Performing Arts Journal  7 5 37 3 52
Philosophy and Literature  19 0 75 15 109
Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology  6 12 24 2 44
Postmodern Culture  57 53 46 37 193
Review of Higher Education  3 2 19 10 34
Reviews in American History  73 0 41 30 144
SAIS Review  9 0 28 10 47
Selections in English Literature  15 4 41 13 73
Technology and Culture  40 20 39 17 116
The Emily Dickinson Journal  5 0 19 3 27
The Henry James Review  24 0 21 5 50
The Lion and the Unicorn  4 9 17 10 40
The Yale Journal of Criticism  42 19 65 67 193
Theatre Journal  50 33 70 27 180
Theatre Topics  26 45 24 18 113
Theory & Event  2 1 2 2 7
Wide Angle  3 3 32 1 39
World Politics  25 1 78 53 157
Total  1253 613 2337 902 5105

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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