Databases of the month: Check it out!

What database usage increased by 1087.5% during Spring quarter 2013?

New York Times Historical!

The library marketing committee featured three databases during spring quarter. The experiment was successful!

  • New York Times Historical was featured in April on the homepage of the library website and showed a huge increase in page views compared to April 2012.
  • ARTstor was featured in May and had a 265.38% increase in viewing.
  • IT Pro Collection (aka Books 24/7) was featured in June and viewings were up by 246.21%.

Try them for yourself! To learn more about these databases click on these links:

 

New York Times Historical (1851-2009):

New York Times logo

ARTstor:

ARTstor logo

 

IT Pro Collection (aka Books 24×7): 

Books 24x7 icon

 

Look for “database of the month” to return in the fall!

 

 

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