arXiv usage at Mason | iNODE

"The other day we started talking about joining arXiv.org as a way to help support Open Access and the valuable service that arXiv offers.  As you’d expect, the question arose, 'How often do we think it’s being used?'

One exploratory email to support at arxiv.org and I had an answer almost within the hour.  For accesses from the gmu.edu domain (meaning the user was on the campus network) we see this activity:

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A steady increase.  Graphed, it’s easy to see.   I’m going to guess that the jump in use around 2013 coincides with our rollout of the Primo discovery service (metadata for arXiv documents is included in the underlying database)."