GALILEO Statistics
GALILEO usage statistics are important to both the GALILEO user communities and the GALILEO initiative. They provide an objective measurement of the success of the initiative and individual resources, and they are fundamental to accountability reports, assessment, and pricing.
GALILEO provides access to resources that are produced by the GALILEO staff as well as resources provided by many different vendors, and the types of usage statistics available for these different resources vary. Since 2003, GALILEO has been developing a method of incorporating vendors' monthly usage data into the locally-recorded data available through the GALILEO usage statistics reporting tool. Monthly reports created with this tool for time periods from 2002 to the present now include search, citation, and full-text article counts for EBSCOhost databases, ProQuest databases, LexisNexis Academic, Encyclopedia Britannica, and most locally-hosted GALILEO databases, including Digital Library of Georgia databases. Usage for SIRS databases is also available for the time periods July 2006 to the present.
Vendor usage statistics are gathered and added to the reporting tool each month by the GALILEO staff, and new statistics are usually available by the tenth day of each month. Detailed statistics for more vendor databases will be available in the near future; in the meantime, the reporting tool's “Links Chosen” statistic provides an indication of usage for every GALILEO resource by reporting the number of times each was selected from a GALILEO menu, the GALILEO homepage, or an Express Link. Use the Contact Us form to submit questions about GALILEO's usage reporting or to request assistance with creating a report.
*Notes:
- Ongoing full-text usage decreased in 2003 as a result of ProQuest discontinuation for K-12 and in 2004 as a result of ProQuest discontinuation for the USG.
- Ongoing searches increased in 2006 as a result of the introduction of federated searching.