LIAS Database Usage Statistics, 1999 - 2001*

1999

2000

2001

Total No. Of Sessions Across All Resources

2,080,468

2,299,067

2,542,038

CAT - PSU Libraries Web Catalog

952,372

892,588

1,016,243

CAT - Journals & More

84,890

192,941

86,771**

CAT - New Titles (recent additions to The CAT)

1,937

2,211

798**

Abacus

2

1

ABI/INFORM (business) 

35,142

24,947

24,473

Academic IDEAL (full text journal articles)

17,632

34,352

Academic Universe

60,103

73,340

48,867

Access PA

3,545

Accessible Archives (18th- and 19th-century news)

2,563

AccessUN

938

733

641

ACM digital library (computer science)

3,578

4,083

6,398

ACS E-Journals (chemistry)

3,675

5,678

7,265

Aerospace Database

2,012

1,757

2,120

African American Biographical Database, 1790-1950

1,521

1,415

1,198

African American Poetry, 1760-1900

41

397

423

AGRICOLA (agriculture & related sciences)

18,451

16,079

13,977

AIDSLINE

554

668

539

AIP & APS E-Journals (physics)

1,621

2,752

4,878

America: History & Life

5,990

5,782

5,684

American Hospital Directory

23

23

American Journal of Economics and Sociology

2

American Mathematical Society (full text journal articles)

687

834

American Poetry Database

784

1,117

999

AMICO Library (images from art museums)

1,141

AMS E-Journals (meteorology)

903

1,420

Annual Of the Association of American Geographers

3

20

Anthropological Literature

6,351

4,571

3,980

Antipode

1

Applied Psychology

2

Applied Science and Technology Abstracts

5,803

3,921

3,014

Aquatic Sciences

3,579

3,041

2,765

ArchivesUSA (manuscript collections)

1,239

1,058

1,039

Art Abstracts

5,751

4,954

4,523

Art Index Retrospective

627

1,391

ARTbibliographies Modern

698

ARTFL (French literature)

526

447

369

ArticleFirst #

9,424

10

Arts and Humanities Citation Index

3,688

3,353

2,736

ASCE Online Journals (civil engineering)

1,212

1,455

AskERIC

3,633

10,706

ASME Online Journals (mechanical engineering)

453

2,084

Associations Unlimited

1,389

1,417

1,810

Avery (architecture)

4,925

4,318

3,652

Bibl. of the History of Art

1,784

2,030

1,735

Bibliography of Asian Studies

758

611

430

Big Ten Library Catalogs

1,564

1,232

857

Biochemical Journal

14

137

BIOETHICSLINE (Ethics in health care & biomedical research)

1,313

1,971

1,589

Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI)

1,891

2,057

2,452

Biological Abstracts

8,499

8,775

Biological and Agricultural Index

10,172

5,334

4,655

Book Review Digest #

1,375

Books in Print

12,526

9,315

9,490

Brown Women Writers Project

65

779

694

CAB Abstracts (agriculture & related sciences)

4,938

3,503

3,626

Cambridge University Press - Electronic Journals

1,291

7,893

8,932

CASSI (Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index) #

952

222

CatchWord

1,127

8,463

CCH Tax Research Network

1,187

1,779

CenStats

914

1,252

1,216

Center for Research Libraries

1,689

1,124

1,044

Centre Daily Times Index

3,398

2,647

2,407

Chronicle of Higher Education

218

492

CIAO (International Affairs)

1

1,085

CINAHL (nursing & allied health)

7,312

10,817

12,382

CommSearch (communications studies)

5,456

3,589

4,853

Community of Science

1,285

902

1,085

Compendex (engineering)

18,537

15,408

15,203

Computer Select (information technology)

2,687

1,792

Congressional/Legislative Resources

3,423

2,917

2,743

Congressional Universe

2

345

Consumer Health (Medline plus)

2,562

3,851

3,662

Contemporary Authors

3,471

3,822

3,099

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select

2,985

2,667

3,292

Contemporary Women's Issues

3,417

4,879

5,079

ContentsFirst (journal tables of contents) #

3,569

1

Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

157

261

263

Criminal Justice Abstracts

2,121

Criminal Justice:National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)

2,268

6,095

5,742

Current Citations (journal table of contents)

2,457

3,226

2,920

Current Contents (recent journal contents)

4,482

5,512

5,306

Current journals and check-in dates (Univ Park)

4,244

4,262

3,247

Datasets for Research

2,067

2,531

Daily Collegian Index

2,535

1,981

1,804

Dickinson School of Law Library Catalog

1,552

729

499

Dictionary of Art (an illustrated encyclopedia of Art)

1,062

Dictionary of Literary Biography

1,379

1,446

1,894

Digital Music Library

1,773

86

Disclosure Global Access (Company Information)

860

1,820

Dissertation Abstracts

6,386

7,497

8,396

DOE Information Bridge (technical reports)

828

633

564

Dow Jones Interactive

15,232

19,337

22,876

Duke Mathematical Journal

2

38

Early English Books Online (EEBO)

312

852

Earthscape (earth and environmental sciences)

1,909

2,924

EconLit (economics)

4,832

5,368

5,904

Economist Intelligence Unit (business intelligence)

2,100

Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare

147

249

196

Education Abstracts #

8,419

3,992

Education Complete (Proquest)

9,551

24,932

Education Databases [including ERIC]

34,938

45,347

EDRS

1,846

6,646

Eighteenth Century Fiction

134

308

281

Electronic Journals

11,913

10,638

8,789

Electronic Reserves

17,213

28,129

50,908

Elsevier ScienceDirect Web Editions (full text journal articles)

6,761

32,836

Encyclopaedia Britannica

9,803

7,633

6,387

English Poetry Database

289

844

913

English Short Title Catalogue (LIAS searching)

960

987

993

English Verse Drama

177

360

364

Environmental Sciences

7,677

5,754

5,091

ERIC (education)

35,463

23,653

3,506

ERIC Digest

1,770

1,648

1,728

ERIC Wizard

1,694

1,974

2,053

ERL Databases

1,190

961

543

eShaman (formerly Computer Select)

1,436

Ethnic NewsWatch

872

2,107

FactSearch (current statistics) #

2,509

2

Federal R&D Project Summaries (grants)

39

118

Final Exam Schedules for University Park

829

656

576

Gale Business Resources (Integrated) #

4,760

2,008

Gender Watch

1,158

3,508

General Science Abstracts

2,828

1,644

1,546

GEOBASE

3,714

3,930

4,006

GeoRef (geoscience literature)

5,634

5,190

6,619

German History

10

22

Global Access (Company Information)

837

2,339

Gopher (Internet access)

6

1

Government Documents/Maps

1,063

911

769

GPO Access (bills, debate, regulations) #

499

517

GPO Monthly Catalog #

220

GrayLIT Network (technical reports)

92

275

Music Index Online

4

26

HealthSTAR (health policy and administration)

1,477

2,357

2,218

Historical Abstracts

4,073

3,688

3,493

The Holocene

4

5

Hoover's Online (Company Information)

45

3,755

HRAF-Human Relations Area Files (anthropology/archaeology)

2,175

1,452

1,243

HSRPROJ (health services grants and contracts)

72

142

115

HSTAT (clinical practice guidelines, treatment protocols)

600

863

644

Humanities Abstracts

3,184

3,437

3,943

IBIDS (Dietary supplements database)

307

463

361

IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature)

1,181

736

666

IEEE Electronic Library (IEEEXplore)

7,179

17,487

26,682

Index to Legal Periodicals & Books

1,778

1,711

1,466

Ingenta

2

4,506

Information Science Abstracts Plus

1,106

1,504

INSPEC

2,356

2,779

3,564

International Index to Music Periodicals

1,035

1,256

1,458

IOP E-Journals (physics)

653

1,201

1,879

ISI Emerging Markets (International Business)

619

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

963

1,438

1,456

Journal of American Ceramic Society

64

314

Journal of American Ethnic History

1

2

Journal of Cell Biology

23

55

Journal of Computational Biology

1

JSTOR (full text journal articles)

23,276

31,116

42,724

Language Testing

1

0

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe

39,948

45,081

Libraries by Geographic Location

579

401

531

Library Literature

3,573

2,714

3,168

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

1,651

Literary Full Text Databases

4,440

3,894

2,671

Literary Theory

329

1,061

1,300

Mass Media Articles Index (1984 to date)

9,408

6,714

6,637

Materials Science