Beyond Downloads:

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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