Electronic Resources and VIVA

A Virtual History

Jim SelfUniversity of Virginia Library

VIVA Tenth Anniversary CelebrationWilliamsburg, VirginiaSeptember 30, 2004

VIVA initiatives – then and now

Operational tools Abstracts and indexes Archival materials Factual databases Journal articles

Operational assistance Ariel software (1995) Open Text Search Engine (1995) Fiche to fiche copiers (1995) Union List of Serials workshops

(1995) Fed Ex contract (1996)

Abstracts and Indexes First Search (1995) Cambridge Scientific (1996) InfoTrac (1997) MathSciNet (1997) ABC-CLIO (1999) OVID (1999) CSA Soc Abstracts (2002)

Archival Resources English Poetry Database (1995) English Verse and Drama (1995) African American Poetry (1995) American Poetry Database (1996) HarpWeek (1999)

Factual Databases Encyclopedia Britannica (1995) Oxford English Dictionary (1996) Contemporary Authors (1996) Books in Print (1996) Stat-USA (1997) CIS Stat Universe, CIAO (1999)

Electronic Journal Articles Academic Press, Project Muse

(1996) InfoTrac, Dow Jones (1997) Association for Computing

Machinery, HighWire (1999) Annual Reviews, Ovid Nursing

Journals, AAAS Science (2000)

Electronic Journal Articles American Chemical Society

Cambridge University Press Oxford University Press PsycArticles (2001)

American Math Society (2002) Nature (2003) Institute of Physics archive,

BioOne (2004)

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VIVA 1995-2004 Database Searches

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12,000,000

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11,330,423

4,445,743

VIVA in FY2004 11,300,000 searches

$2,300,000 cost $0.20 per search

4,400,000 articles downloaded $1,800,000 cost $0.41 per article

University of Virginia Library FY 2004 Statistics

1,223,850 Database Searches 1,451,871 E-Journal Articles

University of Virginia Library FY 2004 Statistics

1,223,850 Database Searches 419,338 funded by UVA (34%) 804,512 provided by VIVA (66%)

1,451,208 E-Journal Articles 893,337 funded by UVA (62%) 557,871 provided by VIVA (38%)

VIVA now and in the future The Academic Library of Virginia? Reference Resources

Informational databases Indexes and abstracts

Periodical Literature News sources and popular journals Scientific and scholarly journals