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Database Usage Statistics

Usage of English Databases: 2020
Database Searches Downloads
Arts & Humanities Citation Index 20,810 –
British Literary Manuscripts Online – –
Chicago Manual of Style – 2,279
Communication & Mass Media Complete 26,484 5,138
Early English Books Online 11,320 176
EBSCO Academic Search Complete 124,281 80,008
ERIC (EBSCO) 74,633 25,568
Film & Television Literature Index 15,228 –
Humanities Abstracts 21,584 –
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism 1 1
JSTOR 107,242 84,837
Kanopy – 2,086
Literature Online (LION) 12,860 1,955
MLA International Bibliography 19,059 –
Nineteenth Century Collections Online 51 15
Oxford English Dictionary Online 823 770
Oxford Language Dictionaries – 6
Past Masters 425 26
Play Index 18,980 –
Project Muse 2,144 7,672
Royal Shakespeare Company Collection 77 23
Thesaurus Lingua Graecae 2,081 –
Women Writers Online 296 –

Usage of English Databases: 2019
Database Searches Downloads
Arts & Humanities Citation Index 16,122 –
British Literary Manuscripts Online – –
Chicago Manual of Style – 2,145
Communication & Mass Media Complete 26,023 –
Early English Books Online 13,764 55
EBSCO Academic Search Complete 168,223 77,844
ERIC (EBSCO) 80,241 24,010
Film & Television Literature Index 22,826 –
Humanities Abstracts 21,584 –
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism 12 4
JSTOR 219,548 120,492
Kanopy – 432
Literature Online (LION) 14,024 4,485
MLA International Bibliography 22,767 –
Nineteenth Century Collections Online 43 51
Oxford English Dictionary Online 3,786 3,553
Oxford Language Dictionaries 31 5
Past Masters 767 49
Play Index 19,336 –
Project Muse 2,303 10,039
Thesaurus Lingua Graecae 4,712 –
Women Writers Online 243 –

Usage of English Databases: 2018
Database Searches Downloads
Arts & Humanities Citation Index 20,719 –
British Literary Manuscripts Online 11 –
Chicago Manual of Style – 4,230
Communication & Mass Media Complete 26,970 –
Early English Books Online 130 –
EBSCO Academic Search Complete 193,214 102,408
ERIC (EBSCO) 42,657 19
Film & Television Literature Index 21,957 –
Humanities Abstracts 21,563 –
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism 13 18
JSTOR 88,795 112,614
Kanopy – 64
Literature Online (LION) 15,068 1,898
MLA International Bibliography 1,980 –
Nineteenth Century Collections Online 54 –
Oxford English Dictionary Online 54 –
Oxford Language Dictionaries 6 16
Past Masters 372 7
Play Index 19,431 –
Project Muse 4,147 13,674
Thesaurus Lingua Graecae 532 –
Women Writers Online 400 –

Usage of English Databases: 2017
Database Searches Downloads
Arts & Humanities Citation Index 23,702 –
British Literary Manuscripts Online 50 –
Chicago Manual of Style – 4,367
Communication & Mass Media Complete 20,957 –
Early English Books Online 25 –
EBSCO Academic Search Complete 181,782 99,095
ERIC (EBSCO) 41,192 30
Film & Television Literature Index 17,187 –
Humanities Abstracts 15,205 –
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism 85 125
JSTOR 69,101 110,400
Kanopy – 20
Literature Online (LION) 1,085 1,138
MLA International Bibliography 782 –
Nineteenth Century Collections Online 43 –
Oxford English Dictionary Online 2,541 2,651
Oxford Language Dictionaries 15 11
Past Masters 1,212 210
Play Index 13,355 –
Project Muse 4,494 13,390
Thesaurus Lingua Graecae 428 –
Women Writers Online 315 –

Usage of English Databases: 2016
Database Searches Downloads
Arts & Humanities Citation Index 24,498 –
British Literary Manuscripts Online – –
Chicago Manual of Style – 913
Communication & Mass Media Complete 18,081 –
Early English Books Online 49 –
EBSCO Academic Search Complete 213,990 114,142
ERIC (EBSCO) 51,126 63
Film & Television Literature Index 13,784 –
Humanities Abstracts 14,881 –
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism 66 66
JSTOR 83,447 117,853
Literature Online (LION) 1,596 2,194
MLA International Bibliography 2,7920 –
Nineteenth Century Collections Online – –
Oxford English Dictionary Online 2,195 2,378
Oxford Language Dictionaries 180 –
Past Masters 545 3
Play Index 12,741 –
Project Muse 5,644 12,298
Thesaurus Lingua Graecae 633 –
Women Writers Online 422 –

Usage of English Databases: 2015
Database Searches Downloads
Arts & Humanities Citation Index 24,211 –
British Literary Manuscripts Online – –
Chicago Manual of Style – 1,214
Communication & Mass Media Complete 26,905 –
Early English Books Online 95 –
EBSCO Academic Search Complete 240,155 109,939
ERIC (EBSCO) 64,662 –
Film & Television Literature Index 19,741 –
Humanities Abstracts 20,057 –
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism 29 22
JSTOR 76,605 239,391
Literature Online (LION) 1,630 1,580
MLA International Bibliography 29,966 –
Nineteenth Century Collections Online 260 –
Oxford English Dictionary Online 2,341 2,352
Oxford Language Dictionaries 1,239 1.766
Past Masters 426 6
Play Index 18,741 –
Project Muse 5,140 10,616
Thesaurus Lingua Graecae 744 –

Top 10 Journals

The lists of Top 10 journals by subject were extracted from Journal Citation Reports database. The Libraries own or have access to all titles linked below.
View definitions of Journal Impact Factor, Eigenfactor Score, and Article Influence Score.

Top 10 Journals
Journal Name ISSN Total Citations 2021 Journal Impact Factor Eigenfactor Score Article Influence Score
Poetics   2,395 1.678 0.003 1.296
Rhetoric Society Quarterly   329 1.313 0.001 0.581
RILCE – Revista de Filologia Hispanica   176 0.456 0.001 0.461
Boundary 2 – An International Journal of Literature and Culture   545 0.411 0.001 0.649
Atlantis – Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies   95 0.359 0 0.336
European Journal of English Studies   139 0.341 0 0.258
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture   91 0.267 0 0.115
Hispania – A Journal Devoted to the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese   391 0.165 0.001 0.23
Estudios Filologicos   79 0.108 0 0.136
ELH   605 – 0.003 –

Book Holdings