GALILEO Statistics Project:  Status Report 6/25/04

 

 

Newly completed tasks:

  1. 6/2/04 meeting of UGA, GSU, and BOR staff involved with usage statistics to discuss current reporting efforts and potential for cooperation.

 

In-progress tasks:

  1. FirstSearch usage reporting evaluation.
    1. Donn Hoffmann and OCLC have created semi-annual reports for past usage for all communities, including searches and articles.
    2. Reports organized by institution and autho—currently evaluating for addition to report generator.
  2. SIRS usage reporting evaluation.
    1. Monthly statistics reports now available by e-mail; past reports available online.
    2. Reports organized by SIRS account name—need to create account name/ID key for addition to report generator.
  3. Bowker usage reporting evaluation.
    1. Monthly statistics available online.
    2. Reports organized by Bowker account name—working with Bowker to revise account names to include IDs for addition to report generator.
  4. Britannica reporting corrections.
    1. Vendor has corrected institution names in past monthly reports; collecting new versions of past reports to replace information currently available through report generator (which is missing some institutions).

 

Database Progress Chart

 

Vendor

Months Reported

Databases Reported

Data Types Reported

Automatic

Delivery?

Notes

EBSCOhost

Jan. 02 through May 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 May 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 May 04

Missing months:

Oct. 02, Jan. 02, Feb. 02, May 02, Jun. 02, Nov.02

LexisNexis Academic

Searches

Full text

No

Apr-May 04 stats just made available; addition to GAL stats page in progress. Vendor is investigating missing months in 2002. New monthly reports generally available one month behind schedule.

Britannica

Apr. 02 through May 04

Encyclopedia Britannica

Searches

Full text

No

Vendor corrected institution names 6/04; currently collecting new versions of past reports to add some missing institutions. Remote access not included in institutions’ statistics; investigating ways to correct this for future reports.

FirstSearch

 

All per-search and subscription

Searches

Full text

No

Currently evaluating reports; see in-progress tasks above.

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.

 

 

Tasks to be addressed:

  1. Develop prototype of new public GALILEO statistics reports generator.
  2. Review what other national consortia are doing for collection and presentation of usage statistics and determine if their efforts can be leveraged or adopted.
  3. Develop plan and steps for archival collection/storage for each product.

 

Previously-completed tasks:

  1. Draft project scope document.
  2. Distribute to project team and other stakeholders.
  3. Critical Issues session on project scope document.
  4. Revise project scope document.
  5. Distribute to project team and other stakeholders.
  6. Draft Communication plan.
  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.
  8. Gather information about alternative usage reporting methods from FirstSearch to address shortcomings of online FirstSearch reports generator.
  9. Organize meetings to plan structure of new public and admin GALILEO statistics reports generator pages.
  10. Focus group meeting held to gather specifications for NGE usage statistics.
  11. Meeting held with NGE technical staff to discuss implementation of statistics focus group recommendations.
  12. Focus group meeting held to gather specifications for DLG databases.
  13. Add MLA, Agricola, EconLit, CINAHL, AHI, CMMI to EBSCO monthly data (retrospective and current).
  14. Develop and test statistics program for LexisNexis, load 1/02-1/04 monthly reports.
  15. Develop tracking mechanism for progress with database vendors. See table below.
  16. 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.
  17. Add GALILEO FY96-FY03 usage bar graph to main statistics page in About GALILEO.
  18. Add Encyclopedia Britannica usage statistics to current GALILEO report generator.
  19. Work with OCLC to create reports for past monthly usage of per-search and subscription databases.
  20. Update usage statistics documents page (http://www.usg.edu/galileo/statistics/documents.phtml) with FY03-04 technical college usage.

 

PM 6/25/04