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Study of the usage of electronic journals distributed by Emerald to universities of Burgos, La Coruña, LaRioja, León, Oviedo, Valladolid and Vigo during the initial years of subscription, 2002–2005. The analysis uses statistics provided by the distributor and is restricted to the study of data concerning downloaded articles. The conclusions outlined in the present work refer fundamentally to the patterns of use within universities of different sizes and to the quality of the contents distributed by Emerald: spread of journals used, core publications, and journal relevance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Analysis of the scientific content distributed electronically by Emerald, Kluwer, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, Taylor & Francis and Wiley InterScience. Three indicators were established for the evaluation: horizontal, thematic, and vertical coverage. The study was performed based on the subscriptions held by the University of Leon (Spain), with the exception of Kluwer and Taylor & Francis for which the analysis was done via free web access. These electronic suppliers are multidisciplinary, though the content offered is fundamentally limited to the areas of natural sciences, health sciences, and social sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A qualitative analysis of the scientific e-content distributed by ScienceDirect (Elsevier), a service subscribed to by Spanish academic libraries. The objective of the study is to evaluate the service's overall information coverage, access architecture, search features, interface characteristics, functionalities and added-value services. The current subscription held by the consortium of Castilla y León (Spain) Academic Libraries -- Bucle--was used for the purposes of this evaluation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A qualitative analysis of Wiley InterScience, service of Wiley & Sons publisher providing electronic scientific contents, references and full texts, subscribed to mainly by Spanish academic libraries. The purpose of this analysis is to evaluate the information coverage, access architecture, search facilities, interface characteristics, functionalities and added value services, based on the subscription held by Bucle, the consortium of Castilla y León academic libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]