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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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For Electronic Journals, Total Downloads Can Predict Number of Users
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Davis, Philip M. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2004
Results from two multiple regression models involving HighWire journal subscriptions in 2003 for 16 participating universities in the United States, United Kingdom, and Sweden indicate a highly predictive relationship between the number of article downloads and the number of users--meaning that the size of a user population can be estimated by…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Journals, Foreign Countries, Correlation
Effect of the Web on Undergraduate Citation Behavior: Guiding Student Scholarship in a Networked Age.
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Davis, Philip M. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2003
Provides results of a longitudinal study tracking research behavior of a multi-college undergraduate course in microeconomics from 1996 to 2001. Student term paper bibliographies grew between 1996 and 2000 but included fewer scholarly resources. In 2001, students tended to cite scholarly sources when the professor provided clear and enforceable…
Descriptors: Assignments, Bibliographies, Citations (References), Higher Education
Where To Spend Our E-Journal Money? Defining a University Library's Core Collection through Citation Analysis.
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Davis, Philip M. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2002
Identifies core journals in the life sciences for Cornell University researchers by analyzing the frequency of Cornell-authored citations in Biosis Previews between 1996 and 2001. Discusses distribution, Bradford's Law of Scatter, the 80/20 Rule, and prices, and recommends this methodology to provide guidance on which titles to purchase for…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Biological Sciences, Citation Analysis, Electronic Journals