By observing file logs of the system delivering “Emeroteca Virtuale” (Digital Library) service at CASPUR it’s possible to argue users behaviour towards scholarly e-journals.
As a first step it is important evaluating and getting from these logs only these messages that bring valid and coherent information; several approaches are proposed in literature, that need to be adapted to our current context. We start this presentation analyzing a few of these and their applications to our digital library service. A more complete analysis approach is then adopted as we get more informative data on users’ activities, focussing especially on research sessions (in order to derive users’ attitudes and habits). We suppose in fact that users’ vs service interaction relies onto two main different factors: specific user’s interest and e-journals attributes (publishers’ categories, print date, etc.). We derive as a last remark a users classification methodology, based on their ways of interacting with the remote system
