Full-text usage of e-books in 2014 by platform / publisher
| Publisher / platform | full-text usage (‘sections’ *) | # of e-books with usage |
# of e-books with a single use |
average usage |
maximum usage | DRM ‘copy protection’ |
| ebrary | 582.579 | 12.681 | 1.580 | 52 | 13.489 | Y |
| Springer | 288.694 | 8.512 | 1.455 | 41 | 8.282 | N |
| Oxford Scholarship Online | 44.013 | 3.182 | 772 | 18 | 2.666 | N |
| AccessMedicine | 28.689 | 125 | 6 | 241 | 9.121 | N |
| ACLS Humanities E-books | 23.717 | 697 | 103 | 40 | 1.058 | Y |
| Wiley | 17.185 | 1.595 | 719 | 19 | 637 | N |
| Early English Books Online | 14.133 | 911 | 168 | 19 | 444 | N |
| Oxford Handbooks Online | 11.511 | 414 | 46 | 31 | 472 | N |
| Eighteenth Century Collections Online | 11.165 | 16 | 0 | 698 | 2.784 | N |
| Oxford English Dictionary | 10.771 | 1 | N | |||
| Gale Virtual Reference Library | 9.853 | 480 | 137 | 28 | 1.174 | N |
| Elsevier ScienceDirect | 9.733 | 717 | 174 | 18 | 544 | N |
| Thieme | 7.703 | 64 | 6 | 133 | 2.596 | N |
| Medicines Complete | 7.510 | 12 | 3 | 834 | 7.333 | N |
| Oxford Reference | 5.323 | 216 | 27 | 28 | 818 | N |
| EBSCOhost | 4.691 | 1.352 | 736 | 6 | 539 | Y |
| PsychiatryOnline | 4.606 | 17 | 5 | 383 | 2.592 | N |
| APA PsycBOOKS | 4.528 | 407 | 154 | 17 | 1.407 | N |
| Cambridge Books Online | 4.437 | 475 | 225 | 17 | 196 | N |
| JSTOR | 4.174 | 722 | 190 | 7 | 103 | N |
| Cambridge Histories Online | 4.015 | 209 | 32 | 23 | 408 | N |
| Cambridge Companions Online | 3.949 | 364 | 55 | 13 | 147 | N |
| Brill | 3.152 | 47 | 13 | 92 | 1.176 | N |
| SAGE | 2.223 | 135 | 22 | 19 | 498 | N |
| Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | 2.042 | 1 | N | |||
| Oxford Public International Law | 1.834 | 7 | 0 | 262 | 1.569 | N |
| EBL -Ebook Library | 1.753 | 578 | 395 | 7 | 85 | Y |
| De Gruyter | 1.670 | 81 | 21 | 27 | 537 | N |
| Grove Art Online | 1.603 | 1 | N | |||
| Grove Music Online | 1.427 | 1 | N | |||
| OVID | 1.135 | 84 | 10 | 15 | 83 | N |
| Brepols | 1.120 | 190 | 59 | 8 | 49 | N |
| APA PsycNET | 752 | 26 | 1 | 30 | 116 | N |
| Taylor & Francis | 652 | 130 | 45 | 7 | 60 | N |
| Oxford Bibliographies | 480 | 1 | N | |||
| Oxford Medicine Online | 168 | 13 | 2 | 15 | 90 | N |
| Literature Online | 86 | 43 | 33 | 5 | 12 | N |
| University Publishing Online | 48 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 10 | N |
| Palgrave Connect | 38 | 18 | 12 | 4 | 8 | N |
| TOTAL full-text usage | 1.123.162 | 34.544 | 7.214 | 41 | 13.489 |
* a ‘section’ typically is a single page in e-books with DRM, and a chapter in e-books without DRM