[Eril-l] browzine thoughts?

[Leslie O'Brien]

Virginia Tech has subscribed to Browzine since July 2014.  We added the web
version to our subscription for the coming fiscal year.  We have 2,400
faculty and 29,000 students.  For the first 9 months we had 1,100 sessions
and 2,300 full text downloads.  About 80% of the sessions were on iOS
devices.  I hope we'll see usage grow over the next year.

Leslie O'Brien
Director of Collections & Technical Services
University Libraries
Virginia Tech

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Steve Oberg <steve.oberg at wheaton.edu>
wrote:

>  We renewed our subscription to the “regular” BrowZine just a few weeks
> ago; it was a new subscription for us last year. We decided to also
> subscribe to BrowZine web, an add-on product, in hopes that it will broaden
> the service’s appeal and accessibility to our users.
>
>  Our stats thus far sound like yours — not great. However, whenever we
> talk about or demo it, the response is quite positive. I’m not sure why
> that is not (yet) translating into higher numbers. It may be due to some or
> all of the following factors (these are purely my own opinion):
>
>    - It’s still a relatively new thing and our community can be slow to
>    adopt new technologies and services
>    - I’m not sure the service will ever broadly appeal to undergrads and
>    we are a predominantly undergrad institution
>    - Existing habits of faculty and perhaps grad students for keeping
>    current in subject areas is probably deeply ingrained
>    - We need to take every opportunity to promote the service, and to
>    show our users how to use it
>
> In sum, I think it is a great service, a great idea, but it will take some
> time to really get traction among our users. We hope the web version will
> help.
>
>  Steve
>
>  Steve Oberg <http://www.wheaton.edu/Academics/Faculty/O/Steve-Oberg>
> Assistant Professor of Library Science
> Electronic Resources and Serials
> Wheaton College (IL)
> +1 (630) 752-5852
>
>   From: Amy Lynn Fry
> Date: Thursday, May 14, 2015 at 10:33 AM
> To: "eril-l at lists.eril-l.org"
> Subject: [Eril-l] browzine thoughts?
>
>    Anyone out there have thoughts on BrowZine? Is anyone signing up for
> BrowZine web?
>
>
>
> Our use of BrowZine is not awesome. Does anyone have awesome usage or
> ideas about increasing usage?
>
>
>
> We currently only have it for iOS.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Amy
>
>
>
> Amy Fry
>
> Associate Professor, Electronic Resources Coordinator
>
> Bowling Green State University
>
> Jerome Library
>
> Bowling Green, OH 43403
>
> afry at bgsu.edu
>
> *email is the best way to reach me*
>
>
>
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