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VŠFS becomes an active member of the consortium for the access to Proquest Central database

VŠFS becomes an active member of the consortium for the access to Proquest Central database

04.02.2015

Since autumn 2013, the University of Finance and Administration has had an access to multi-field full-text database of research articles - Proquest Central. The access has been provided through the consortium project at MŠMT „Information - Research Base“, which is covered by the University of Economics.

This access under most favourable terms has been allowed after obtaining the status of a Research organization, awarded to us by the Research, Development and Innovation Council in 2012, which was confirmed this year again.

VŠFS Centre of Librarian Services obtained statistical data about the access to Proquest Central for 2014, also for all involved institutions.

After the evaluation of these data we can observe that VŠFS is an active member of the consortium; activities of our users exceed e.g. the number of access entries from the Silesian University or ŠKODA Auto VŠ.

We are respectable team-mates of much bigger institutions, such as Municipal Library of Prague, Moravian Library in Brno, National Medical Library; as for the number of downloaded articles we even keep up with the much bigger Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague. The enclosed table presents relevant parameters.

The database is plentifully used by our staff for scientific-research or pedagogical activities as well as by our students for the preparation of their diploma theses.

We can thus observe that the database is thoroughly used considering the size of our school and the invested funds are surely worth it.

 

Consortium member for the access to the database of Proquest Central within LR project (under VŠE)

Number of Search Queries

Number of Accesses

Number of downloaded full texts

Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze

76131

45019

82157

Univerzita Karlova

61932

88701

51706

Národní technická knihovna

55609

58230

17188

Akademie věd ČR

19749

10409

7814

Česká zemědělská univerzita

9384

5073

4353

Moravská zemská knihovna v Brně

6243

2846

9545

Vysoká škola finanční a správní, o.p.s.

4420

2049

4292

Národní lékařská knihovna

4043

3823

7499

Slezská univerzita v Opavě

2827

880

1373

Škoda Auto a.s. Vysoká škola

2804

1153

2253

Městská knihovna v Praze

2707

1276

2702

Fakultní nemocnice Ostrava

1498

638

1329

Ústav mezinárodních vztahů

606

668

1021

Vysoká škola polytechnická Jihlava

395

893

2775