Category Archives: usage statistics

A new e-resources usage statistics dashboard

New usage statistics dashboard alert! Check it out at https://whheresourceusage.shinyapps.io/dash/. Drop me a line here or on twitter and let me know how much you love it. *** For the last several years I have been annually publishing the usage … Continue reading

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COUNTER 5 SUSHI harvester

Annually I compile COUNTER usage statistics of our licensed e-resources to contribute to our library’s national reports and to update our local e-resources statistics dashboard. Until last year this was a manual process requiring a significant amount of time. I … Continue reading

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Usage statistics season

Our university’s fiscal year just ended on May 31 so it is time to complete all of our end-of-season tasks. A big task that I’m responsible for is gathering usage statistics for our electronic resources, to contribute to some annual … Continue reading

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e-resources usage stats dashboard update

In July I told you about a project that my colleague and I were working on here, to develop a statistics dashboard for electronic resources usage. Our project has progressed to the point at which we are beginning the construction … Continue reading

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usage statistics, now with more monkey

You guys know how I’m always going on about reliable methods for counting the use of library e-content? Project COUNTER is pretty much where it’s at, the standard libraries use to measure use. I’ve been following their work (http://www.projectcounter.org/index.html) since … Continue reading

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celebrating one year of our ERM

One year ago on this date we began the implementation process for our electronic resource management system, Innovative’s ERM. In the past year we have entered 352 resource records, which describe our databases, e-journal collections, and e-book collections. Through the … Continue reading

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