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)
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)
Newly Completed Tasks:
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)
In Progress Tasks:
17. Make January 2002 through September 2003 monthly ProQuest statistics available to
public through GALILEO Usage Statistics page. (IN PROGRESS)
18. Extend available monthly EBSCOhost
data back to January 2002. (IN PROGRESS)
19. Complete steps 9a-h for resources 9i-xx.
(IN PROGRESS: FirstSearch, LexisNexis, Bowker)
20. Create key relating LexisNexis institution names and codes, database
names, and statistic types to the corresponding items in GALILEO. (IN
PROGRESS)
21. 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)
22. Develop plan and steps for archival
collection/storage for each product. Develop tracking mechanism for monitoring
progress. (IN PROGRESS)
23. Organize meetings to gather specifications
for DLG and NGE databases. (IN PROGRESS)