Internet-based Entrez use grew dramatically in 1994 while CD-ROM subscriptions plateaued¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · design r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 1994 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
Evidence quality · No study behind this claim is a peer-reviewed article with a DOI: it rests on an ERIC document (a report, conference paper or thesis). It is kept because 2 design pages cite it; treat it as a lead to check, not an established finding.

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Usage of WWW Entrez and Network Entrez grew dramatically during 1994, while Entrez CD-ROM subscription growth reached a plateau. → Epstein 1994 q2 i? A detailed usage study suggests an average Network Entrez session corresponds to roughly eight WWW Entrez URLs. → Epstein 1994 (2)

Evidence¶

Epstein 1994¶

Epstein, Jonathan A., Kans, Jonathan A., & Schuler, Gregory D. (1994). WWW Entrez: A Hypertext Retrieval Tool for Molecular Biology. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED462262

q2 · i? · design · r2

Observational usage statistics reported in the Usage section, plotted as hosts/day, users/day, sessions/day, and URLs/day through 1994. The article notes CD-ROM usage cannot be counted, so the three services cannot be compared directly.

"The usage of WWW Entrez and Network Entrez has grown dramatically during 1994, while the growth of the Entrez CD-ROM subscriptions has reached a plateau."

Epstein 1994 (2)¶

Epstein, Jonathan A., Kans, Jonathan A., & Schuler, Gregory D. (1994). WWW Entrez: A Hypertext Retrieval Tool for Molecular Biology. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED462262

q2 · i? · design · r2

The article reports a "more detailed study" calibrating the two usage metrics, finding "an average Network Entrez session corresponds to roughly eight WWW Entrez URLs", because no exact analogy exists between sessions and URLs.

"However, a more detailed study suggests that an average Network Entrez session corresponds to roughly eight WWW Entrez URLs."

Discussion¶

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