The document summarizes the findings of a study on the impact of digitized scholarly resources. It describes various quantitative and qualitative methods used in the study, including webometrics, analytics, log file analysis, interviews, focus groups, and surveys. The study analyzed five digitization projects and found they had positive impacts like improving research and enabling new types of quantitative analysis. Usage varied by project, with some seeing more impact through teaching resources while others saw more impact through computational analysis of materials.

1. Slides from Humanities on the Web: Is it working? Date: Thursday, 19 March 2009, 10-4 Location: Oxford University, Oxford, UK Webcast URL: http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/?view=Webcast&ID=20090319_274 Slide URL: http://www.slideshare.net/etmeyer/TIDSR Morning Event: 10:00 – 11:15: Toolkits for e-Humanities Overview of Phase 1 Digitisation Projects (Dr. Kathryn Eccles) Quantitative Tools (Prof. Mike Thelwall & Dr. Kathryn Eccles) Qualitative Tools (Dr. Eric Meyer & Dr. Kathryn Eccles) Survey Data (Christine Madsen & Dr. Eric Meyer) Discussion and questions Full details: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=238

2. Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources: Introduction to JISC Phase One Digitisation projects Kathryn Eccles Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford

3. Project 1 – Online Historical Population Reports (OHPR/Histpop)

4. Project 1 – Online Historical Population Reports (OHPR/Histpop)

5. Project 1 – Online Historical Population Reports (Histpop)

6. Project 2 – British Library 19th Century Newspapers

7. Project 2 – British Library 19th Century Newspapers

8. Project 2 – British Library 19th Century Newspapers

9. Project 2 – British Library 19th Century Newspapers

10. Project 3 – British Library Archival Sounds

11. Project 3 – British Library Archival Sounds

12. Project 4 – British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service (BOPCRIS): 18th Century Official Parliamentary Publications Portal 1688-1834

14. Project 4 – British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service (BOPCRIS): 18th Century Official Parliamentary Publications Portal 1688-1834

15. Project 4 – British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service (BOPCRIS): 18th Century Official Parliamentary Publications Portal 1688-1834

16. Project 4 – British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service (BOPCRIS): 18th Century Official Parliamentary Publications Portal 1688-1834

17. Project 5 – Wellcome Medical Journals: the backfiles project

18. Project 5 – Wellcome Medical Journals: the backfiles project

19. Project 5 – Wellcome Medical Journals: the backfiles project

22. Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford Kathryn Eccles [email_address] http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/faculty.cfm?id=138

23. Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources: Quantitative Methods Dr Kathryn Eccles Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford & Professor Mike Thelwall University of Wolverhampton

24. Overview Quantitative Methods used in the Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources: • Webometrics • (Google) Analytics • Log file analysis • Scientometrics / bibliometrics

35. For more information, visit the toolkit at: http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/tidsr/

36. Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources: Qualitative Methods Dr Eric Meyer & Dr Kathryn Eccles Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

44. For more information, visit the toolkit at: http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/tidsr/

45. TIDSR Survey Data Eric Meyer Christine Madsen OII 19 March 2008

47. Demographics

48. Demographics Average Age 45.3 Age Range 20-83

49. Degrees & Field

52. Awareness of Resources by Country

53. Awareness of Resource by Country

58. Have you ever published a piece based on your work in this collection? If so, how did you cite the collection?

60. How did you find this resource?

61. How did you find this resource? Histpop BOPCRIS BL News BL Sounds Med Backfiles Google 33% 33% 25% 19% 37% Prof society, discussion list or conference 25% 22% 26% 43% 27% Library 4% 22% 32% 10% 27% Colleague 25% 18% 11% 24% 6% Other 13% 4% 7% 5% 2% Student 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% Campus IT 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%

62. How do you use this resource?

63. How do you use this resource? Histpop BOPCRIS BL News BL Sounds Med Backfiles Online reference source 78% 81% 74% 66% 78% For personal interests 35% 49% 50% 46% 27% Download to use offline 26% 36% 40% 29% 57% Teaching resource 30% 30% 29% 39% 27% Manual analysis 17% 32% 38% 10% 39% Find materials to consult in person 4% 23% 18% 12% 39% Computational analysis 30% 6% 4% 2% 10% Reuse, remix or edit 17% 11% 9% 7% 0% Other 4% 0% 3% 5% 6%

67. Attitudes towards Digitisation

71. For more information, visit the toolkit at: http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/tidsr/