Statistiques et visibilit\'e des biblioth\`eques num\'eriques : quelles strat\'egies de diffusion ?

TL;DR

This paper examines the relationship between digital library size and online visibility of documents, analyzing diffusion strategies and their impact using various data sources.

Contribution

It provides a comparative analysis of digital library statistics and explores how diffusion strategies influence online visibility of digitized documents.

Findings

Larger digital libraries tend to have higher online visibility.

Diffusion strategies significantly affect document visibility.

Strategies vary across French digital libraries.

Abstract

We compared statistics of major digital libraries and we tried to see if there is a relationship between the volume of digital libraries and online visibility of each digitized document. Finally, we analyzed the consequences of the diffusion strategies of French digital libraries. The statistics were obtained by survey, gray literature, alexa.com, and Google Trends.