<div dir="ltr">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.<br>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Judith Price <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:JPRICE@mus-nature.ca" target="_blank">JPRICE@mus-nature.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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 responses maybe
you could summarize them for the list?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Nhcoll-l] Effect of Global Database Inclusion on Loan Requests<u></u><u></u></div><p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">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?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Many thanks,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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