ICL Annual Report April 2011 ~ March 2012

ACC-RAC 2012, Las Vegas, March 15

Current State of the ICL Database• Number of records ~ 22,222• Number of journals indexed ~ 20• Number of indexers ~ 13• Google page rank 6 ~ (5+ considered authority)• Statistics available from:

~ AWStats (database usage)~ WordPress (Web pages usage)~ Facebook (fan page usage) ~ LinkedIn

Journals Currently Indexed• Ann Vert Sublux Res (CF)• BMC Mus Disord (selective; AT-V)• Chiropr Dialog (SW)• Chiropr Hist (AK)• Chiropr & Manual Ther (AT-V)• Chiropr J Aust (TH)• Clin Chiropr (TH)• DC Tracts (HB)• JACA Online (AO)• J Acad Chiropr Ortho (KL)• J Can Chiropr Assoc (AT-V)

• J Chiropr Educ (AT-V)• J Chiropr Humanit (RI)• J Chiropr Med (PS)• J Clin Chiropr Pediar (AK)• J Manip Physiol Ther (RI & KL)• J Pediatr Matern & Fam (KP)• J Upper Cervical Chiropr Res (DW)• Nutr Perspect (PH)• Top Integr Health Care (SW)

Ceased: ICA Review

Journals Currently Indexed cont’d

Total: 20

Indexers & Other Contributors

• Bennett, Helen (NZCC)• Boni, Bethyn (NYCC ~ ChiroSH)• Butkovic, Margaret (CMCC ~ Index Committee)• Collier, Deanne (CMCC)• Florin, Corinne (NW Health)• Heath, Tish (AECC)• Harvey, Phyllis (Palmer ~ Indexer & ICL Editor)• Iwami, Russ (NUHS)• Kempke, Ann (NW Health ~ Indexer & ChiroSH)• Lockwood, Katie (UWS)

• Osenga, Annette (Life West ~ Indexer, Indexing Committee Chair)

• Preston, Karen (Life)• Shadrix, Pam (Life)• Sharifi, Claire (Life West ~ YouTube developer)• Taylor-Vaisey, Anne (CMCC ~ Indexer, Co-Editor, Web

Editor)• Tepe, Shabha (Logan ~ Treasurer)• Thomas, Marcia (Cleveland ~ Index Committee)• Walters, Sheryl (Logan)• Wright, Daniel (Palmer Florida)

Indexers & Other Contributors cont’d

Database & Web Site UpdatesHighlights from March 2011 – March 2012

• March 2011 ~ Google translation feature installed, enabling users to translate ICL Web pages into 50 languages ($100)

• May 2011 ~ Global edit feature for journals added to the administrative function; necessary due to publishers changing content management systems and thus all links to articles, e.g. JVSR, JCH, JCE, JCCA ($600)

• ~ Order of display of results by journal reversed; now results display with latest issue first, as in other databases ($300)

• August 2011 ~ Major server upgrade completed at our host site; keeps ICL site running quickly and smoothly

• September 2011 ~ Anne Taylor-Vaisey presented How Social Media Sites Help Attract Users to ICL at the Annual Professional Practice Day, Health Sciences Information Consortium, September 14, University of Toronto (http://www.library.utoronto.ca/hsict/lectures/Anne_Taylor_Vaisey_Chiropractic_Literature_09_14_11/)

• ChiroSearch, a Google custom search engine was created by the Web Editor, September 15; it searches many of the pages to which we link through the ICL pages; a value added feature for ICL(http://www.chiroindex.org/web-resources/chirosearch)

• ~ All permissions from the publishers to reproduce abstracts were reviewed by Editor Phyllis Harvey; all permissions are in order, including the new McCoy Press journals

Database & Web Site Updates cont’d

• October 2011 ~ ICL’s Facebook page celebrated its first anniversary

• ~ Copyright statement was updated on ICL ($21.25)

• November 2011 ~ Indexers were assigned for some of the McCoy Press journals

• ~ Annette Osenga indexed all the Chiropractic Economics annual fees and reimbursements reports, from 1998 to the present

• ~ Anne Taylor-Vaisey updated the Chiropractic Library Collaboration blog (http://clibcon.wordpress.com)

• December ~ Ann Kempke cleaned up the “orphan subject headings” in ICL; helps make the database much cleaner

• ~ Google Ajax Translation replaced original feature; now users may translate search results as well as ICL Web pages ($100)

Database & Web Site Updates cont’d

• January 2012 ~ A new WYSIWYG editor for the notes field of the online indexing form was installed; now indexers don’t have to work only in html code ($300)

• February 2012 ~ ICL user satisfaction survey was designed and mounted on SurveyMonkey; added to every page of the ICL Web site ($85); survey posted on facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn

• ~ some wording on search screen was edited ($21.25)• ~ Ann Kempke has updated the subject help file and submitted it to

the Editor and Co-editor for review and incorporation into the current help files; this will result in a more robust document to better assist indexers

• March 2012 ~ Anne Taylor-Vaisey and Phyllis Harvey wrote the ICL Annual Report

• AT-V updated the Chiropractic Library Collaboration blog

Database & Web Site Updates cont’d

ICL inSpanish

Indexing in HTML Code

The WYSIWYG Editor

Database Usage ~ AWStats

2011 Overview

2010 Overview

2009-2011 Overview

2011 2010 2009 Number of unique visitors: 35,211 32,912 16,609Number of total visits: 80,253 97,513 45,672Number of pages viewed: 522,191 627,509 352,489 Number of hits: 2,503,531 2,532,831 1,378,087

2011 Usage by Days 2011 Usage by Hours

2012 2011

2010

2011 ~ Top 25 Referrers

Search Engines2011 2010

Web Site Usage ~WordPress Stats

Top 25 Page ViewsJuly 2010-

March 2012

Top 25 ReferrersJuly 2010-

March 2012

Top 25 Clicks

July 2010-March 2012

Search TermsJuly 2010-

March 2012

Social Media

March 13, 2012

Facebook Insights

March 132012

Twitter

Needs & Wants

Needs ~ March 2011• Links to ICL and ICL’s Facebook page on all library

pages (public, not password protected)• Indexers for DC Tracts and Dr. McCoy’s new journals• Volunteers to help clean up old ICL records• ICL procedures manual ~ in process• Succession plans ~ need to mentor indexers who may

wish to become editors

UPGRADE ESTIMATE (not approved) ~ for personal user accounts for saving searches and search results:

$5,000 for programming$250/yr for extra Web hosting

User Satisfaction Survey ~ Wants

User Survey ~ Top 5 Wants

Estimates from our Programmers

• Personal accounts for saving searches & results $5,000 plus $250/year storage (no change)

• Bolding of search terms in results $500

• Offer sorting of results options (by date, journal, article title, first author) $750

• Online patron chat to librarian $750

Next Steps??