Digital Journeys: Access Modalities, Content & Navigation Data from a Humanities and Social Sciences Open Digital Library

Mohsine Aabid; Simon Dumas Primbault; Patrice Bellot

doi:10.5334/johd.610

Digital Journeys: Access Modalities, Content & Navigation Data from a Humanities and Social Sciences Open Digital Library

Journal of Open Humanities Data

Volume 12 (2026): Issue 1

By: Mohsine Aabid , Simon Dumas Primbault and Patrice Bellot

Open Access

|Sep 2026

Abstract

This dataset contains user navigation sessions along with metadata about the content accessed by users collected from OpenEdition, an open-access digital library for the humanities and social sciences. It was built from server logs that record page requests, timestamps, referral sources, device information, and search interactions, then enriched with geolocation and document metadata. Automated traffic was removed and sessions were reconstructed through a dedicated identification process. The dataset covers two comparable periods, December 2024 and December 2025, and is stored as Parquet and CSV files. It can support research on scholarly browsing behavior, search and recommendation systems, digital library design, and longitudinal studies of information seeking.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.610 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X

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Language: English

Page range: 128 - 128

Submitted on: Jun 24, 2026

Accepted on: Aug 25, 2026

Published on: Sep 30, 2026

Published by: Ubiquity Press

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

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