Journal use at the UW-Madison

Online journal usage statistics for selected titles related to the plant and insect sciences at the UW-Madison:

Title - # Articles Accessed 2008

Cell - 26,926
Journal of Molecular Biology - 13,134
Current Biology - 9,482
Molecular Cell - 8,752
FEBS Letters - 7,193
Molecular Microbiology - 4,770
Virology - 4,344
Gene - 4,200
Forest Ecology and Management - 3,939
Current Opinion in Cell Biology - 3,629
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 3,306
Chemistry & Biology - 3,247
Trends in Ecology and Evolution - 3,199
Current Opinion in Chemical Biology - 3,071
Trends in Cell Biology - 3,069
Atmospheric Environment - 2,971
Current Opinion in Structural Biology - 2,967
Biological Conservation - 2,849
Current Opinion in Plant Biology - 2,810
Current Opinion in Biotechnology - 2,791
Trends in Genetics - 2,625
Trends in Plant Science - 2,561
Soil Biology and Biochemistry - 2,451
Current Opinion in Microbiology - 2,435
Remote Sensing of Environment - 2,387
Ecological Modelling - 2,367
Journal of Power Sources - 2,290
Journal of Biotechnology - 2,260
Trends in Microbiology - 2,253
FEBS Journal - 2,139
Conservation Biology - 2,137
Chemosphere - 1,948
Biotechnology and Bioengineering - 1,888
Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment - 1,799
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology - 1,643
Cellular and molecular life sciences (CMLS) - 1,523
New Phytologist - 1,488
Proteomics - 1,480
Global Change Biology - 1,454
Oecologia - 1,452
Ecology Letters - 1,336
Science of the Total Environment - 1,334
Molecular Ecology - 1,317
FEMS Microbiology Letters - 1,264
Journal of Cellular Physiology - 1,249
Environmental Microbiology - 1,223
BioEssays - 1,208
Genomics - 1,204
Bioresource Technology - 1,074
Fungal Genetics and Biology - 1,064
FEMS Microbiology Letters - 1,049
Journal of Applied Microbiology - 1,024
Restoration Ecology - 997
Cellular Microbiology - 964
Landscape Ecology - 963
Animal Feed Science and Technology - 880
Plant Molecular Biology - 874
Ecosystems - 863
Plant Science - 859
Biometrics - 839
Journal of Applied Ecology - 808
Planta - 791
Environmental Management - 757
Biotechnology Letters - 695
Climatic Change - 679
Cytometry Part A - 639
Plant Cell & Environment - 623
FEMS Microbiology Ecology - 576
Plant and Soil - 573
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology - 564
Microbial Ecology - 563
Global Environmental Change - 551
Journal of Ecology - 546
Euphytica - 542
Biological Invasions - 534
Journal of Biogeography - 519
Plant Ecology - 483
Virus Research - 483
Biodiversity and Conservation - 470
Molecular genetics and genomics (MGG) - 463
Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture - 459
Biogeochemistry - 441
Journal of Cereal Science - 436
Archives of Microbiology - 429
Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology - 417
Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology - 415
Oikos - 412
Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - 365

Coming soon: Proxy changes for licensed database access

Proxy changes for licensed database access

The UW Libraries are changing how we manage access to our online, licensed resources from campus computers. These changes have already been implemented for our library computer networks and now it's time to implement them for the rest of campus.

In order to better control access and remain in compliance with our license agreements, beginning on July 1st, all links from our http://library.wisc.edu pages to licensed, e-resource links, will be routed through our proxy server. For computers within the campus IP space, this routing will occur without the need for any user authentication. The only thing you will notice is a URL with an "ezproxy" string embedded in it. Computers outside of the campus IP space route through the proxy as they do now, with a need to authenticate with a valid NetID and password.

Users who have direct links or bookmarks to licensed resources, such as http://www.sciencedirect.com from campus computers will continue to be able to do so in the short term, but eventually as we notify vendors to only accept sessions from our proxy server IP address, they will be denied.

The most reliable way to maintain access to resources is to access them via our library web pages where all appropriate proxying is automatic. We do however realize that some users will wish to use direct links to licensed content. In order to facilitate this, we will be promoting a simple "bookmarklet" that will insert the proxy string into any URL. Users will be able to easily insert the proxy string using this bookmarklet and then create new bookmarks for future use. Information on this "bookmarklet" can be found at: http://www.library.wisc.edu/off-campus/#what-is-it

Why are we making this change?

The main reason we're making this change is because of the increasingly dynamic nature of the campus IP space and the proliferation of VPNs. With our current system if there are changes to the campus IP range (for example, an extension of a campus subnet to Research Park) or creation of VPN ranges, we must communicate it to hundreds of resource vendors. By bringing IP control back to our proxy server, we can make the changes locally (forcing authentication or not) and only require our vendors to allow sessions from the few proxy server IPs.

Why is this so complicated?

The main complicating issue is the way in which we license resources. The vast majority of them are licensed to allow anybody to use them while physically on the UW campus. In addition, any staff, faculty or student may use them from anywhere. So, we use a proxy server to confirm if a user is on campus, and if they are not, we force them to login to ensure they are staff, faculty or students.

Please let us know if you have questions or concerns about any of these changes, or if problems arise with resource access.