2010-11 Library Annual Report

 Legislative Histories (free)  Map and Atlas Collection (free)  Metapress/Baywood Journals  New England Journal of Medicine (UW-System Library Consortium)  North American Immigrant Diaries and Letters (UW-System Library Consortium)  OECD iLibrary (UW-System Library Consortium)  Sage Journals (40 separate titles)  Something About the Author (Cengage Gale)  Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database (free)  Worldcat.org (free) Database Vendor Changes EBSCO bought out NetLibrary the electronic book collection and converted it to the EBSCO platform. The EBSCO e-Book Collection is now available via the EBSCO database array. In June, EBSCO also announced that they had purchased the WilsonWeb databases and would be converting or incorporating the Wilson databases into the EBSCO platform. The first database to be converted was Biological and Agricultural Index which is also still accessible via the Wilson platform. EBSO also announced that this conversion should be completed in December 2011.

Another major change has been ProQuest’s acquisition of all the CSA Illumina (Cambridge Scientific) databases and their conversion into the ProQuest platform. In the Spring of 2011, ProQuest discontinued the Health and Safety/Risk Abstracts database in CSA leaving the Design and Applied Arts Index the only CSA database converted into the new ProQuest platform that the library subscribes to.

Database Usage and Full Text Availability The Ex Libris SFX link resolver system provides a collection tool that will report on the number of unique and duplicate holdings available from full text targets (databases). Not all of the targets that are available to Stout users are available in the SFX system. There are fifty-three targets that can be accessed for full text resources (books, periodicals, conference proceedings, and standards). A total of 88,762 are available and of that, 69,198 titles are unique to their respective databases. This means that there are 78% that are unique and with only a 22% overlap of titles. During this fiscal year, there was a 15% increase in the number of full text titles available over the previous year (75,859).

EBSCO continues to be the database system of choice for most of the Stout users.

However, this fiscal year shows a 17% decrease in the number of database searches done. This may be accounted for by the way the databases are accessed. In the past when a searcher accessed a database in the EBSCO system they may have selected all the databases to search simultaneously which consequently meant that every database was counted toward the total.

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