Use of electronic monographs in the humanities and social sciences
- 1 December 2001
- journal article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in Library Hi Tech
- Vol. 19 (4) , 368-375
- https://doi.org/10.1108/eum0000000006541
Abstract
This article provides preliminary information about patterns of access and use of a collection of 35,000 electronic scholarly monographs in the humanities and social sciences provided by a commercial online library collection, QuestiaSM. Search logs and page view logs were analyzed as to the characteristics of the search queries and browsing within titles. Major findings include patterns of simple search queries and significant access to a surprising breadth of titles.Keywords
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