Sharing of scholarly articles is widespread and increasing. The Beyond Downloads project looks at scholars’ sharing behavior and what download counts are missing to better measure the reach — and impact — of a library’s resources.
How scholars save & share articles
Rank or position
RESPONDENT DEMOGRAPHICS Country breakdown United States
81.0%
Subject area of interest
27%
Life Sciences
Italy 7%
Physical Sciences
18.2%
15.5%
China 7% Medical or Health Sciences 20.8% Spain 4% Computer Sciences Canada 4%
Researcher in a private or non-academic institution Masters or PhD student %
4.6%
Mathematics 3.9%
United Kingdom 3.8%
Engineering
12.9%
India 3.8%
Social Sciences
12.5%
62 other countries
11.2
26
Other databases 9%
Where do scholars download articles from?
Institutional or subject repositories 9%
SAVE & SHARE
61% return to articles read for research purposes
57% return to articles
saved full-text articles to a desktop or laptop more than half the time
What do they share? 51% full-text articles 14% references 16% url/links
“
he main point should T be that I share a version that is evidentially the peer-reviewed version (with the publisher and the journal stamp on it).
How do scholars share for research?
2 Cloud services
11.6%
3 Password-protected networks at home institution 10.7%
for teaching
Which version of the article do they want to share?
Where do the articles go?
Downloading — accessing and saving scholarly articles from search engines, library e-collections, or scholarly databases
Do scholars return to a saved copy?
(As some respondents selected “0” for each source of download, these mean percentages do not equal 100.)
73.8%
Scholarly articles — articles found in print or electronic journal issues, websites, or separate copies such as preprints, reprints, and other electronic copies downloaded for the purposes of researching or teaching
Average number of scholarly articles downloaded for teaching in their last academic term
Other websites or social media 6%
4 Research social networks 5 Reference management software 6 Other 7 Learning management software 8 General social networks 9 Blogs
Average respondent age
%
DEFINITIONS
Publisher websites 19% Research social networks 7%
1 Email
4.4
Average number of scholarly articles downloaded per research project
98
48
Other
65
% of respondents downloaded articles
Library subscriptions or databases 54%
83.6%
3.4
hold a PhD
%
43.4%
DOWNLOAD
% 82 of respondents
Professor / faculty member / researcher in an academic institution
77
prefer to share the published version of % their own work
84
%
prefer sharing the published version of other scholars’ work
”
Their most recent link or reference is shared by email an average of
8.2 times
(excluding outliers)
Their most recent full-text download is shared by email an average of
8.4 times
(excluding outliers)
Why do scholars share?
The most popular reasons for sharing are: to further scientific and academic discovery
63
%
61%
to facilitate collaboration
to promote 19% others’ work to fulfill an information need
52%
29%
to promote my own work
About the survey and the Beyond Downloads project Results reflect feedback from 1,000 respondents. The online survey was hosted at the University of Tennessee and distributed by Elsevier as part of the Beyond Downloads project, whose purpose is to ascertain a more complete picture of the use and value of scholarly articles. Sponsored by Elsevier, Beyond Downloads is an international collaboration among the University of Tennessee, CIBER Research Ltd., Project COUNTER and Elsevier.
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