The Materials Chemistry cluster was launched in February and the various journals phased in from February to June. All eight journals are now live, and some have backfiles going back to 1995. They are promoting SuperJournal, all clusters are getting usage, and a focus group for Materials Chemistry is planned for July. Two meetings were held with the librarians. The meeting in June at Leeds focused on user feedback and delivery scenarios for electronic journals.
Usage continues to grow at the user sites.
In May there were over 800 sessions, ie twice the number in February. A separate Plan for Year 3 explains the rationale for the evaluation research, the individual activities planned, and the timing. Progress to date is briefly as follows. A list of Hypotheses to be tested by the usage data was circulated within the project in January. Since then Loughborough have developed this into an Evaluation Plan for Testing the Hypotheses .