GALILEO Statistics Project: Status Report
Previously Completed Tasks:
1. Draft project scope
document. (DONE)
2. Distribute to project
team and other stakeholders. (DONE)
3. Critical Issues session
on project scope document. (DONE)
4. Revise project scope
document. (DONE)
5. Distribute to project
team and other stakeholders. (DONE)
6. Draft Communication plan.
(DONE)
7. Provide production access
to EBSCO statistics for FY 2003-2003 and July 2003- forward. (DONE)
8. Request that ProQuest reconfigure accounts to assist with data
collection. (DONE)
9. Discuss the current
GALILEO Usage Statistics page and develop specifications for modifications to
meet VPAC's requests as well as provide enhanced
reporting capabilities. (DONE)
10. Complete steps 9a-h for ProQuest. (DONE)
11. Create key relating ProQuest institution names and
codes, database names, and statistic types to the corresponding items in
GALILEO. (DONE)
12. Provide ProQuest key and sample report to
GALILEO programmers for program development. (DONE)
13. Gather information about
alternative usage reporting methods from FirstSearch
to address shortcomings of online FirstSearch reports
generator. (DONE)
14. Organize meetings to
plan structure of new public and admin GALILEO statistics reports generator
pages. (DONE)
15. Complete program to
convert ProQuest statistics
reports for use in GALILEO Usage Statistics page. (DONE)
16. Prepare monthly ProQuest reports from January 2002 through September 2003
for production access. (DONE)
17. Make January 2002
through October 2003 monthly ProQuest
statistics available to public through GALILEO Usage Statistics page. (DONE)
18. Extend available monthly
EBSCOhost data back to January 2002. (DONE)
19. Schedule automatic
vendor delivery of monthly EBSCO and ProQuest usage
reports. (DONE)
20. Update EBSCOhost and ProQuest statistics
with new November 2003 data. (DONE)
21. Focus group meeting held
to gather specifications for NGE usage statistics. (DONE)
Newly Completed Tasks:
22. Create key relating LexisNexis institution names and codes, database names, and
statistic types to the corresponding items in GALILEO. (DONE)
23.
Provide LexisNexis key and sample report to GALILEO
programmers for program development. (DONE)
24.
Meeting held with NGE technical staff to discuss implementation of statistics focus
group recommendations. (DONE)
In Progress Tasks:
25. Focus group meeting
scheduled for
26. Develop prototype of new
public GALILEO statistics reports generator.
(IN PROGRESS)
27. Complete steps 9a-h for resources
9i-xx. (IN PROGRESS: FirstSearch,
LexisNexis, Bowker)
28. Review what other
national consortia are doing for collection and presentation of usage
statistics and determine if their efforts can be leveraged or adopted. (IN PROGRESS)
29. Develop plan and steps
for archival collection/storage for each product. Develop tracking mechanism
for monitoring progress. (IN PROGRESS)
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