Database Usage
Use of library subscription databases showed healthy increases again this quarter (about 11 %), and continued an upward trend that has seen gains every quarter since October of 2016. During that run, combined database use climbed from 2,765 downloads to 3,494 downloads this quarter, a year to date increase of 19%. ASTM Compass, Knovel, and ASCE Library remain the library's most used databases, but this quarter we saw a steep rise in the use of Books24x7, which received a radically new user interface (see the Database Improvements section of this report), heavily promoted by the library and the VDOT Learning Center. As a result of promotion and the increased "usability" of that research, usage of Books24x7 jumped 40% and was higher than we've seen since we started collecting statistics on it in 2011.
| Subscription Downloads By VDOT: FY18 Q1 | ||||
| July | August | September | Total | |
| ASTM Compass | 302 | 278 | 243 | 832 |
| Books24x7 | 133 | 131 | 429 | 693 |
| Knovel | 210 | 286 | 147 | 643 |
| Non-Subscription Downloads (Library Catalog) | 170 | 186 | 209 | 565 |
| TRR | 92 | 139 | 90 | 321 |
| ASCE | 106 | 123 | 49 | 278 |
| EBSCO eBooks | 11 | 15 | 42 | 68 |
| EBSCO Business Book Summaries | 10 | 26 | 15 | 51 |
| ScienceDirect | 8 | 20 | 1 | 29 |
| Other (miscellaneous resources)* | 2 | 7 | 1 | 10 |
| EBSCO Business Source Corporate Plus | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Monthly Totals | 1,046 | 1,221 | 1,227 | 3,494 |
Note: Miscellaneous resources includes International Journal of Pavement Engineering, Corrosion and the Highway Capacity Manual.
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