The statistics below have me wondering about the value of OpenWorldCat as it is now implemented in Google and Yahoo. I have found that the links to OpenWorldCat in Google and Yahoo are lost in all of the noise in a search results display. If OpenWorldCat is to connect our users to our libraries, it must be made more prominent in the search results. The only way to get it to stand out now is to include the phrase "Find in a library" or "worldcat" as part of your search. I do not pretend to know of any easy way to do that.
| Reporting Period: | February 2006 - September 2005
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| Institution: | SUNY AGR TECH COL AT MORRISVILLE |
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| Symbol: | XMM |
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| History
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| Feb 2006
| % of clicks |
| Jan 2006
| Dec 2005
| Nov 2005
| Oct 2005
| Sep 2005
|
Total
| 25
| 100.0% |
| 4
| 6
| 7
| 2
| 1
|
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| Authenticated |
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Catalog
| 0
| 0.0% |
| 0
| 0
| 1
| 0
| 0
|
Open URL
| 7
| 28.0% |
| 0
| 0
| 1
| 0
| 1
|
Subtotal
| 7
| 28.0% |
| 0
| 0
| 2
| 0
| 1
|
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| Public |
|
Catalog
| 4
| 16.0% |
| 4
| 6
| 4
| 2
| 0
|
Library Information
| 14
| 56.0% |
| 0
| 0
| 1
| 0
| 0
|
Subtotal
| 18
| 72.0% |
| 4
| 6
| 5
| 2
| 0 |
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1 comments:
Don't know if blogspot allows trackbacks/pings so here's a post for ya: Searching OpenWorldCat
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