Digital Collections

ARL SUPPLEMENTARY STATISTICS FOR OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES*
2009-10


ELECTRONIC BOOKS
Number of electronic books held 463,952
Expenditures for electronic books 326,653


USE OF NETWORKED RESOURCES/SERVICES
Number of virtual reference transactions 4,618
Number of sessions (logins) to databases or services 4,687,741
Number of resources for which you are reporting - Logins 242
Number of searches (queries) in databases or services 9,442,417
Number of resources for which you are reporting - Queries 280
Number of successful full-text article requests 6,339,551
Number of resources for which you are reporting Article Requests 1 84
Number of virtual visits to the library's website 4,819,759
Number of virtual visits to library's catalog 1,532,525


LIBRARY DIGITIZATION ACTIVITIES
Number of  Library Digital Collections 2 1,379
Size (in gigabytes)  of Library Digital Collections 420
Items in  Library Digital Collections 133,379
Number of times items accessed 3 2,935,925
Number of queries conducted n/a


NOTES:
* Includes Health Sciences Library data.
1 Includes database and e-journal publishers full text viewed.
2 Digital collections represented here reside in:  the OSU Knowledge Bank;  in an OhioLINK digital repository (Daphne Dare and Forestry Images collections);  on a commercial server (The Lantern, OSU student newspaper historical archive, at Olive/OCLC);  or are accessed via the Libraries Digital Projects and the Exhibits web sites.
3  Usage data currently reflects only use of institutional repository collections in OSU Knowledge Bank at http://kb.osu.edu) and does not include use of digital collections housed elsewhere on the library's web site or on external servers.