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. 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)
8. Gather
information about alternative usage reporting methods from FirstSearch
to address shortcomings of online FirstSearch reports
generator. (DONE)
9. Organize
meetings to plan structure of new public and admin GALILEO statistics reports
generator pages. (DONE)
10. Focus
group meeting held to gather specifications for NGE usage statistics. (DONE)
11. Meeting held with NGE technical staff to discuss
implementation of statistics focus group recommendations. (DONE)
12. Focus group meeting held to gather specifications for
DLG databases. (DONE)
Newly
Completed Tasks:
13. Update EBSCOhost and ProQuest statistics with February 2004 data. (DONE)
14. Add MLA, Agricola, EconLit, CINAHL, AHI, CMMI to
EBSCO monthly data (retrospective and current). (DONE)
15. Develop and test statistics program for LexisNexis, load 1/02-1/04 monthly reports. (DONE)
16. Develop tracking mechanism for progress with database vendors.
See table below. (DONE)
17. Add GALILEO Usage Statistics Documents page to About
GALILEO to make CY and FY reports available online. See http://www.usg.edu/galileo/statistics/documents.phtml.
(DONE)
In Progress
Tasks:
18.
Evaluate monthly reporting capabilities for additional vendors. Upcoming: SIRS,
Bowker, Britannica. (IN
PROGRESS)
19.
Organize FY03 USG institution usage reports, FY03 public libraries reports, and
other reports for addition to Documents page. (IN PROGRESS)
20. Add GALILEO FY96-FY03 usage chart to main statistics
page in About GALILEO. (IN PROGRESS)
21. Develop prototype of new public GALILEO statistics
reports generator. (IN PROGRESS)
22. 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)
23. Develop
plan and steps for archival collection/storage for each product. (IN PROGRESS)
Database
Progress Chart:
|
Vendor |
Months
Reported |
Databases
Reported |
Data
Types Reported |
Automatic Delivery? |
Notes |
|
EBSCOhost |
Jan. 02
through Feb. 04 |
Academic
Search Premier Agricola Alt HealthWatch American
Humanities Index Business
Source Premier CINAHL Clinical
Pharmacology Clinical
Reference Systems Communication
& Mass Media Complete Computer
Source EBSCO
Animals Econlit ERIC Funk
& Wagnalls Health
Source - Consumer Edition Health
Source: Nursing/Academic Edition MAS Ultra
- School Edition MasterFILE Premier MEDLINE Middle
Search Plus MLA
International Bibliography Newspaper
Source Pre-CINAHL Primary
Search Professional
Development Collection PsycARTICLES Psychology
and Behavioral Sciences Collection PsycINFO Regional
Business News Religion
and Philosophy Collection Sociological
Collection TOPICsearch |
Searches Citations Full text |
Yes |
|
|
ProQuest |
Jan. 02
through Feb. 04 |
ABI/INFORM
Dateline ABI/INFORM
Complete Business
Dateline Career
& Technical Education JuniorQuest KidQuest National
Newspapers Periodical
Abstracts Research II Platinum
Periodicals ProQuest Nursing Journals ProQuest Newspapers Research
Library Research
Library GALILEO Edition |
Searches Citations Full text |
Yes |
|
|
LexisNexis |
Jan. 02
through Jan. 04 Missing
months: Oct. 02,
Jan. 02, Feb. 02, May 02, Jun. 02, Nov.02 |
LexisNexis Academic |
Searches Full text |
No |
Vendor is
investigating missing months. |
|
Britannica |
|
Encyclopedia
Britannica |
Searches Full text |
No |
In
progress. Vendor is adding instcodes to account
names for past and future monthly reports to assist reporting. |
|
Bowker |
|
Books in
Print + Reviews |
Searches Citations |
No |
In
progress. Vendor is adding instcodes to account
names and regrouping consortia for past and future monthly reports to assist
reporting. |
|
SIRS |
|
Discoverer Researcher Interactive
Citizenship |
Searches Full text |
Yes |
In
progress. Automatic delivery set up for future reports; past reports now available
online. |
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