E-Resources Usage Dashboard (FY22)

UD Libraries provides access to ~70K unique e-journal titles, which in turn results in access to millions of full-text articles. The list below displays the most highly used e-journal titles in the most recent fiscal years with the number of "total item requests" listed for each title. A separate metric of "unique item requests" is also listed under the details for each bar, which can be viewed by hovering over the bar. Please see the glossary section for an explanation of the difference between these two metrics.

This visual displays the top 100 titles for FY21 and FY22. All data visualized on this page is COUNTER 5. All data visualized on this page comes from a COUNTER report which excludes usage of open access (OA) content (a level of analysis that we were unable to accomplish in previous years). As a result, several major titles measured in previous years on platforms like Nature.com were excluded this year because they are entirely OA (see this blog post for numbers from FY21 which include these OA titles). Nevertheless, some of the journals visualized above are still technically open, but the mode of access to reach this OA content--within EBSCO's subject databases--means that the version of this content is only available to UD users; for example, PLoS One is included, but this only measures usage of the content when it is accessed from EBSCO databases (Academic Search Complete, CINAHL, etc), requiring UD users to authenticate before retrieving the content. This likely signals that many users are searching within EBSCO databases before Google and opting to select the best (or perhaps the most convenient) article for their research or assignments, regardless of whether it is a OA or not. In sum, the data visualized here represents usage of content that requires the end-user to authenticate for access, and it likewise excludes usage of individual OA articles within a journal that is not entirely open.