Document Type

Article

Department or Administrative Unit

Library

Publication Date

6-22-2016

Abstract

Web page views of databases by title and databases by subject pages, in conjunction with COUNTER Database Report 1 and Journal Report 1 statistics, were examined to determine what impact a migration to Primo, a Web-scale discovery layer, had at Central Washington University Brooks Library. The analysis determined that the first year post-migration (2015) compared to the two years pre-migration (2013–14) saw a decline in Web page views of database Web pages, journal full-text article requests, and database record views and result clicks. The implementation of Primo thus had a noticeable negative impact on both direct database access and overall electronic resource usage during the first year post-migration.

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Web Librarianship on June 22, 2016, available online here.

Journal

Journal of Web Librarianship

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