Evaluating the access of electronic periodicals at the Web through the analysis of the access log file

Abstract

This article presents an approach for the evaluation of the access to electronic journals made available in the World Wide Web through the analysis of the access log file. The access log file of the journal Informação & Sociedade: Estudos is processed and presented as an example of the use of an automated tool for log file analysis. The inherent features on the analysis of the access log file are presented and discussed.

Electronic periodicals; Access evaluation; Access log file