Usage PubMed Outside Tool : SFX statistics of RUGLinks

For years now, I am putting together this list of the usage of our PubMed Outside Tool link.

We see a very strong rise of the use of PUBMED wíth RUGlinks (our Outside-tool, the SFX-linker). The special URL turns on our library’s Outside Tool for every record displayed in PubMed.

People click the special URL with our Outside Tool username on average:

• 719 times per day,
• 30 times per hour and
• every 2 minutes somebody clicks to PubMed with this URL!

Yearly:

• 2007: 262.579 (New Year RECORD!)
• 2006: 221.803
• 2005: 189.486
• 2004: 73.256
• 2003: 24.152

Even more interesting is the rising number of times users actually CLICK on our library’s Outside Tool icon, on average:

• 924 times per day,
• 38 times per hour and
• every 90 seconds somebody clicks the RUGLINKS icon in PUBMED to get access to the fulltext and see info about the availability of the specific document.

• Total 2007: 337.436 times