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Below is a message (forwarded with permission) originally posted to the CD-Plus list regarding unexpectedly high usage of full text journal articles linked to the OVID Medline product. The responders to her question all hypothesize that people will read whatever is easiest for them to get to. This behavior raises some questions for me. 1. University faculty are often evaluated on the number of times their publications have been cited. Journal publishers will include in their advertising how they rank in ISI's journal rankings (which is based on the number of times that journal is cited). Shouldn't these authors and publishers be falling all over themselves in their eagerness to get their full-text products out there and linked to an online database? 2. Why DON'T we see advertising with online journals? I hear that high circulation journals like Science are concerned that if their circulation numbers drop, their income from advertisers will go down. But what about additional revenues from web-based advertising? Advertising is so prevalent on the web, except on journal publishers' sites! That seems odd to me. If advertisements will get the popular scientific and medical journals easily accessible electronically, then put them up. >Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 08:10:14 -0600 >Reply-To: "CDPLUS-L: CDPLUS User Group" <CDPLUS-L@listserv.utoronto.ca> >Sender: "CDPLUS-L: CDPLUS User Group" <CDPLUS-L@listserv.utoronto.ca> >From: Kathrine MacNeil <kjm5523@unix.tamu.edu> >Subject: CBC in academic medical libraries >To: Multiple recipients of list CDPLUS-L <CDPLUS-L@listserv.utoronto.ca> > >Good morning, colleagues, >My question is, how many simultaneous users have you purchased >for the Core Biomedical Collection database? Here at the Medical Sciences >Library at Tx A&M University, we are running Ovid using UNIX, and we have >two simultaneous users for CBC. We have logged 241 license exceeded >messages in the first three weeks of March. It seems counter-intuitive >that a general university campus would have this much need for this set of >15 (mostly) medical journals. Can anyone think of what may be the reason? >What am I missing? > >Thanks for your help. > >Kathrine MacNeil Electronic Resources Coordinator >Medical Sciences Library Tx A&M University >College Station, TX 77843 >kmacneil@medlib.tamu.edu 409-845-7439 fax: 409-845-7493> Donna O'Malley Dana Medical Library University of Vermont Burlington, VT 05405 (802) 656-2200 (802) 656-0762 (fax) Donna.O'Malley@vtmednet.org
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