[Nhcoll-l] Effect of Global Database Inclusion on Loan Requests

[Carla Cicero]

I agree, this is a very interesting question, and it would be great to get
a summary of responses. At MVZ, we definitely noticed an increase in loan
requests (especially for tissues) when our data went online. I would
imagine that the impact with VertNet would be substantial, but I don't know
of any effort to quantify that.


On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Judith Price <JPRICE at mus-nature.ca> wrote:

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> That’s a really interesting question! I can imagine folks not wanting to
> seem to be complaining about increased traffic, so if you get off-line
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> *From:* nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu [mailto:
> nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] *On Behalf Of *Sarah K. Huber
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> *Subject:* [Nhcoll-l] Effect of Global Database Inclusion on Loan Requests
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> We are hoping to upload our collection database to FishNet2 in the coming
> months, and I was wondering if anyone has any data about the effect of
> inclusion in these types of global databases on loan requests. After adding
> a collection database to a global databse (e.g., FishNet2, HerpNET, ORNIS,
> etc.), did loan requests noticeably increase? If so, does anyone have any
> data indicating the percent increase?****
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