Monash world’s largest user of database

Monash staff and students rank among the world's largest users of two major online databases.

Monash is ranked as the world's largest user of the Emerald database, which offers mainly business, information technology and engineering journals.

Emerald reported over 100,000 article downloads by Monash users in each of the past two years, with RMIT being the next biggest user in the world.

The most popular title is Management Decision, and the most popular article over the last two years has been “Fayol stands the test of time” by Michael J Fells in Journal of Management History.

Monash is also reported to be the fourth highest user of Journals@Ovid in the world, and the number one user in Australia.

Journals@Ovid provides citations, abstracts and full text from hundreds of scientific, technical and medical full text journals from many publishers and societies.

“Australian universities are often among the highest users of electronic products, due to our policies of early adoption, and the speed advantage that online access gives over print subscriptions,” said Digital Resources Librarian, David Groenewegen.

“Use of electronic resources, including electronic journals, by Monash staff and students continues to grow.”

In 2004 the library spent 40% of its $14 million acquisitions budget on electronic resources.

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12 January 2005

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Monash is ranked as the world's largest user of the Emerald database, which offers mainly business, information technology and engineering journals.