This is from Andrew Waller's OA Librarian:
Open access resources for librarians.
http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/11/visits-and-hits-on-e-lis-and-dlist.html
It reports the high level of usage of two large GNU Eprints.org
Archives, E-LIS and DLIST; see also their growth charts:
http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Feprints.rclis.org%2F
http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdlist.sir.arizona.edu%2F
Visits and hits on E-LIS and DLIST
The number of visits and hits on two library and information science
open access repositories, E-LIS and DLIST have greatly increased over
the past year. E-LIS experienced 135,861 visits and 1,176,937 hits as
of Octber 2005, up from 33,864 visits and 287,390 hits a year ago;
looking just at hits, this is a 210% increase over what had been
accumulated by a year ago. The number of hits on DLIST is 112,728,
up from 41,146 in February 2004. Simply, these tools are being used
more and more.
Received on Thu Nov 17 2005 - 19:46:22 GMT