Re: New Release: Demand for IDEAL Highest Ever

[Katherine Porter <Porter@LIBRARY.Vanderbilt.edu>]

Okay, they have all these stats to proclaim, I wish they would send us
some useful info on our use beyond number of sessions a day.

Kitty Porter
Stevenson Science & Engineering Library
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Vanderbilt University
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On 4 May 2001, at 18:26, Ann Okerson wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 15:12:46 -0700
> From: ddecooman@acad.com
> Subject: New Release:  Demand for IDEAL Highest Ever
> 
> Contact: Daria DeCooman
> Academic Press
> (619) 699-6283
> ddecooman@acad.com
> 
> OVER 1 MILLION USER-SESSIONS LOGGED IN MARCH,
> Marking the Highest-Ever Demand for IDEAL� -
> the Pioneering Online Library from Harcourt
> 
> San Diego, May 3, 2001 - During March, researchers in science,
> technology and medicine logged over one million user-sessions on IDEAL
> - marking the first time usage of this online library has soared so
> high in a single month.
> 
> Located at <http://www.idealibrary.com>, IDEAL offers STM journals, as
> well as access to a growing and diverse body of other electronic
> research products - including IDEALReferenceWorks encyclopedias and
> informatics databases from SciVision.
> 
> The 1,085,206 user-sessions logged in March represent an increase of
> 57% over sessions in March 2000, and an increase of 2,577% since IDEAL
> statistics were first tracked in 1997. User-sessions totalled
> 7,416,613 in 2000.
> 
> Launched in 1996, IDEAL continues to experience phenomenal growth
> indicated by user-sessions as well as numbers of downloads,
> institutions licensed, nations where licensed groups are located, and
> authorized users.
> 
> Academic Press President Dr. Pieter Bolman remarked, "We are very
> pleased, because we continue to experience 2001 as a year of
> exceptional growth. Much credit for this goes to the popularity of
> IDEAL's Academic Press and Harcourt Health Sciences journals and our
> current expansion of HHS titles on IDEAL.
> 
> "However, it's also significant that this record-setting growth is
> following fast on the heels of forward-looking technical innovations
> put in place last year. More links in and out of IDEAL from
> third-party providers such as CrossRef - of which AP is a founding
> member - make doing research more seamless than ever for our users.
> Plus, our bringing aboard Akamai Technologies' FreeFlow service has
> led to shorter download times for users."
> 
> Stated Larry Alexander, vice president of electronic publishing
> systems at Academic Press, "One more factor we see as crucial to
> IDEAL's continuing success is access. So researchers can tailor their
> access to IDEAL, last fall we introduced the pick-and-choose
> Institutional Publications License and our new pay-per-view service
> IDEALOnDemand.
> 
> "Today, our customers can choose to access individual articles,
> specific journals, or a collection of journals on IDEAL. Further, we
> most recently launched the IDEAL Charter for Low-Income Countries,
> making all our online journals affordable to researchers in the
> world's poorest nations and helping reduce the digital divide."
> 
> Continued Mr. Alexander, "We are delighted with IDEAL's extraordinary
> growth and our track record of successful innovations. And, we are
> proud of the terrific value IDEAL always delivers."
> 
> IDEAL, the International Digital Electronic Access Library, is
> licensed in 32 countries by more than 2,000 academic institutions and
> industrial and pharmaceutical companies. Over 10 million users
> worldwide are authorized to use IDEAL.
> 
> IDEAL offers close to 300 journals published by Academic Press and
> Harcourt Health Sciences - encompassing Bailli�re Tindall, Churchill
> Livingstone, Mosby, and W.B. Saunders imprints. IDEAL includes more
> than 200,000 journal articles.
> 
> The number of journals on IDEAL has just increased, due to the
> addition of medical and scientific titles from Harcourt Health
> Sciences. Over 140 HHS journals are available on IDEAL.
> 
> IDEAL is the online library of the Harcourt Worldwide STM Group.
> Academic Press is a Harcourt Science and Technology Company and part
> of Harcourt's Worldwide Scientific, Technical and Medical Group.
> Academic Press is an international multiple-media publisher of
> high-quality journals, book serials, major reference works, databases,
> textbooks and monographs.
> 
> Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Harcourt, Inc., Harcourt General
> (NYSE: H) is a leading global multiple-media publisher, providing
> products and services to classroom, corporate, research, medical and
> consumer markets.
> 
> IDEAL is a registered trademark of Harcourt, Inc. More information
> about IDEAL appears at <http://www.idealibrary.com>.  IDEAL news
> releases appear at <http://www.apnet.com/www/ideal/pressreleases/>. #
> # #