South Asia Open Archives (SAOA)

New on Databases A-Z : SOUTH ASIA OPEN ARCHIVES (SAOA)

From the  archive website:

“The South Asia Open Archives (SAOA), a subset of the South Asia Materials Project (SAMP), creates and maintains a collection of open access materials for the study of South Asia. This major collaborative initiative is aimed at addressing the current scarcity of digital resources pertinent to South Asia studies and at making collections more widely accessible both to North American scholars and to researchers worldwide.”

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Database usage statistics 2018-2019

This ia an update on database usage at the University of Cambridge.

Total database usage increased by 10.9% in 2018-2019.

Searches, result clicks and record view increased by 10.4%, 9.7% and 12.7% respectively.

There were in total:

• 1.4 million searches,
• 3.0 million result clicks and
• 3.6 million record views (i.e. full text downloads)

The top 10 most used databases are as follows:

Database	Statistic	2018-19 total
Ovid MEDLINE(R)	Record views	919,646
Proquest databases (all)	Record views	807,093
Embase	Record views	675,356
Scopus	Record views	166,125
Oxford English Dictionary	Searches	148,137
Springer-Protocols	Record views	131,767
Web of Science	Record views	131,527
18th C. Collections Online	Record views	128,979
BMJ Best Practice	Record views	124,798
Oxford Dictionaries	Searches	107,435