...Tami Oliphant; Ali Shiri Purpose The purpose of this paper is to elaborate the long tail of topical search queries, including the influence of current events, posed to a large, urban public library discovery system. Design/methodology/approach Search queries from the months of June, July...

... the long tail of usage statistics and to compare it with subscription lists of individually selected titles and packages (big deals). Design/methodology/approach The paper exploits usage statistics and subscription data from a national usage study of an academic publisher. Data are from 2010...