[Eril-l] browzine thoughts?

[Harper, Cynthia]

Does it download whole journals? Otherwise, how is the content available for offline sessions? And does that affect your usage counts?  Is it only for the sciences (as the first webpage I found indicated)?

Cindy Harper
Virginia Theological Seminary
charper at vts.edu<mailto:charper at vts.edu>

From: Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org] On Behalf Of Leslie O'Brien
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 1:42 PM
To: eril-l at lists.eril-l.org
Subject: Re: [Eril-l] browzine thoughts?

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<mailto: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<tel:%2B1%20%28630%29%20752-5852>

From: Amy Lynn Fry
Date: Thursday, May 14, 2015 at 10:33 AM
To: "eril-l at lists.eril-l.org<mailto: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<mailto:afry at bgsu.edu>
email is the best way to reach me


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