Usage and Impact Study
JISC-funded Phase 1 Digitisation Projects and Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources
JISC has commissioned the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) to conduct a study on the usage and impact of a selection of online digital resources which were produced as part of the JISC Phase One Digitisation Programme, 2004-2007 (Medical Journals Backfiles, British Library 19th Century Newspapers, Archival Sound Recording at the British Library; Online Historical Population Records, and 18th Century Parliamentary Papers).
The study intends to investigate the level of impact, usage and take-up that such resources have had, since going live, on teaching, learning and research within relevant subject areas and the degree to which they respond to users’ needs. In particular the study aims to:
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assess the use and usage patterns of the five online digital resources
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assess the level of impact of resources on their target audiences, primarily researchers, teachers and learners in UK
HE and
FE Institutions
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assess the quality of the digital resources
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devise a methodological framework for the JISC Digitisation Programme to adopt for assessing the use and impact of the outputs of current and future funded digitisation projects
As part of this study, the OII will produce a Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources which will provide JISC and JISC-funded projects with a set of approaches and tools available to measure and potentially improve the impact of current and future digitisation projects.