[Asis-l] Usage of an electronic journal

[Tom Wilson]

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    For those interested in such matters, I have finally discovered
the University of Sheffield's usage logs for the InformationR.net
site. Unfortunately, for some reason, they only cover the period from
8th October 2004 and they are not accessible to outside users.
However, I have copied the files to the Information Research site and
will continue to do so in future.

    You can find the data for October and November on the site, and
you will find that they give a much more comprehensive picture of
usage than the counter on the top page of the journal. Information
about the stats. can be found here.

    One point to note is that the statistics cover the whole of the
InformationR.net site - not just Information Research. However, if you
click on 'URLs' at the top of the page, you are taken to the list of
the top 100 of the 2,783 URLs on the site (I knew it was a pain to
maintain!), from which you can see that the top page of the journal
('/ir/') had 6,350 hits in November; the World list... ('/wl/') had
2,227, the guide to research methods ('/rm/') had 1,043, my home page
('/tdw/') had 534 and that the guide to free resources does not figure
in the top 100.

    The KBytes figure shows the amount of data sent out by the server
- for November it was 7,251,013 KBytes, making it one of the busiest
sites on the University's servers.

     The usage of the papers given in the top 100 URLs brings home
once again that publishing in a genuinely open access journal gets you
noticed :-)

 
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Professor Tom Wilson, PhD
Publisher and Editor-in-Chief
Information Research: an international electronic journal
Website: http://InformationR.net/
E-mail: wilsontd at gmail.com
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