2016-2018 EBSCO Usage Report for Miriam College

Take a look at how the academic communities of Miriam College have made use EBSCO as an institutional online research platform based from these raw data provided by our EBSCO partners beginning first year of subscription:

• Database Sessions- achieving the highest sessions in 2017; while highest in terms of searches in 2016. 2018 has 1st semester figures only. (A session is considered one cycle of user activity that starts when a user connects to the service) while searches refer to when an EBSCO user looks up data, this look-up is registered as a Search. The total number of Searches logged by our system can optionally be reported by EBSCOAdmin and they can be broken down by Site, User Group or Profile): YEAR - SESSIONS; SEARCHES

2016 - 65202; 225676

2017 - 75418; 215177

2018 - 43219; 148561

TOTAL- 183839; 589414

• Total Full-Text Requests amounted to 40005, highest during first year of subscription in 2016 (The sum of all Full Text requests made while within an EBSCO interface):

2016 - 15279

2017 - 14886

2018 - 9840

• Total Abstract Requests scored a total of 77513, highest in 2016.

2016 -29944

2017 - 29707

2018 - 17862