Library Services Statistics
TABLE 1: USE OF THE LIBRARY
Average Daily Visits |
2014‑2015 |
2013‑2014 |
Term |
321 |
330 |
Vacation |
273 |
288 |
Overall |
301 |
313 |
|
|
|
HIGHEST DAILY VISITS |
597 |
700 |
|
|
|
TURNSTILE COUNT OF VISITS |
116,186 |
120,970 |
Averages include extended hours late weekday opening and Sunday opening.
TABLE 2: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SERVICES
Commercial Online Services (selected) |
2014‑2015 |
2013‑2014 |
Databases |
|
|
Westlaw UK |
468,895 |
714,199 |
HeinOnline |
257,613 |
346,129 |
Lexis Library |
300,198 |
259,149 |
IBFD Online |
209,393 |
126,232 |
Casetrack |
7,322 |
8,411 |
Beck Online |
29,406 |
27,766 |
Justis |
34,437 |
36,370 |
Max Planck Encyclopedia PIL |
7,470 |
7,089 |
LexisNexis Juris Classeur |
14,634 |
22,787 |
Oxford Scholar - Law |
4,073 |
10,795 |
WorldtradeLaw.net |
2,626 |
394 |
Lexis AU Casebase |
2,010 |
2,456 |
LLMC Digital |
384,596 |
17,724 |
Other databases |
25,643 |
22,287 |
|
|
|
Electronic journals |
|
|
EBSCO |
68,118 |
162,504 |
Oxford Journals |
82,205 |
78,200 |
Kluwer Law |
22,764 |
34,257 |
JSTOR |
26,534 |
27,912 |
Ingenta |
5,752 |
5193 |
Wiley |
7,321 |
12,214 |
Proquest |
17,891 |
30,550 |
Cambridge Online |
5,142 |
10,743 |
Sage Journals |
306 |
730 |
Checkpoint |
984 |
1,543 |
Other electronic journals |
30,467 |
12,281 |
|
|
|
Indexes |
|
|
Index to Legal Periodicals |
accessed via EBSCO |
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals |
accessed via HeinOnline |
Le Doctrinal |
485 |
1,188 |
Other indexes |
4,350 |
2,281 |
|
|
|
Total usage |
2,128,908 |
2,127,638 |
|
|
|
IALS Web Site |
2014‑2015 |
2013‑2014 |
Page Views |
4,947,600 |
4,796,936 |
Number of Visitors |
762,932 |
735,091 |
Visitors per day |
2,090 |
2,013 |
|
|
|
BAILII (hosted by IALS) |
2014‑2015 |
2013‑2014 |
Page Views |
61,829,877 |
44,640,653 |
Visitors |
8,112,798 |
7,545,539 |
|
|
|
IALS Online Databases |
2014‑2015 |
2013‑2014 |
Amicus Curiae - online journal |
140,438 |
131,113 |
Archives |
35,728 |
30,984 |
CaLIM - Current Awareness |
1,817 |
1,822 |
CLRT - Current Legal Research Topics |
10,658 |
13,041 |
Eagle-i Internet Portal for Law |
64,297 |
66,923 |
Electronic Law Library |
91,018 |
99,991 |
FLAG - Foreign Law Guide |
40,840 |
38,730 |
FLARE - Foreign Law Research |
61,703 |
67,941 |
FLARE Index to Treaties |
17,934 |
20,962 |
IALS Digital Collections |
100,642 |
139,229 |
IALS Facebook "lifetime likes" |
3,478 |
2,500 |
IALS library catalogue |
153,973 |
201,402 |
IALS Open Journals |
190,936 |
278,327 |
IALS Twitter Followers |
844 |
516 |
LibGuides |
61,509 |
- |
Library Research Guides |
- |
- |
Library Subject Guides |
- |
- |
SAS-Space e-repository (IALS section) |
132,488 |
83,355 |
|
|
|
Total usage |
1,171,344 |
1,269,163 |
TABLE 3: LOANS
Collections |
2014‑2015 |
2013‑2014 |
Main Collection |
16,089 |
22,597 |
Short Loan Collection |
9,295 |
11,783 |
Closed Stack Collection |
1,720 |
1,862 |
Offsite Store Collection |
2 |
3 |
|
|
|
Total |
27,106 |
36,245 |
TABLE 4: INTER-LIBRARY LOANS
Requests from Other Libraries |
2014‑2015 |
2013‑2014 |
Volumes lent |
3 |
10 |
|
|
|
Photocopies supplied |
No. of items |
65 |
78 |
No. of sheets |
848 |
983 |
|
|
|
Requests made by IALS |
4 |
3 |
TABLE 5: TELEPHONE AND EMAIL ENQUIRIES
Source of Enquiry |
2014‑2015 |
2013‑2014 |
Academic |
914 |
887 |
UK government departments |
13 |
10 |
Overseas governments and international organisations |
13 |
8 |
|
|
|
Legal Profession: |
Barristers |
43 |
55 |
Solicitors |
112 |
120 |
Overseas lawyers |
3 |
2 |
|
|
|
Other professions |
35 |
34 |
Commercial institutions |
16 |
24 |
Public libraries, charities and miscellaneous |
67 |
79 |
|
|
|
Total |
1,216 |
1,219 |
|
|
|
TABLE 6: DISTANCE SERVICES
Source of Enquiry |
2014‑2015 |
2013‑2014 |
Telephone |
291 |
311 |
Fax |
2 |
1 |
Email |
1,294 |
1,338 |
In person |
2 |
2 |
|
|
|
Total enquiries |
1,589 |
1,652 |
|
|
|
Document Supply Service: |
|
|
Items emailed |
1,961 |
1,939 |
Items posted |
0 |
0 |
Items faxed |
0 |
2 |
Items dispatched by courier |
0 |
0 |
Items collected |
1 |
1 |
|
|
|
Total items supplied |
1,962 |
1,942 |
|
|
|
Sheets of copy supplied |
41,719 |
40,419 |
Items loaned |
1 |
1 |
Page last updated: 31st March 2016