GALILEO Statistics Project:  Status Report 3/26/04

 

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 New World Encyclopedia

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

Hoover's Company Capsules & Profiles

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.

 

 

 

PM 3/26/04