 |
 |
Hi Andy, You have my sympathy. In relation to usage statistics it's always amazed me that publishers haven't considered providing us with ready made analysis of our usage statistics. As these are such an important metric these days in deciding whether to continue subscribing to content you might think they would provide us with some sort of summary report each year to prove their worth and retain us as subscribers especially in these difficult financial times. One publisher that seems to have grasped this (although this only relates to my own experience) is JSTOR who have kindly for the 1st time provided subscribers with a "top-level" view of our 2008 usage. It's not as detailed as the usage data we can download, but as an annual snapshot of our usage of the service it's a very welcome addition. Maybe other publishers might consider following this very useful example? Cheers Lesley Lesley Crawshaw Knowledge & Business Intelligence Consultant Information Hertfordshire University of Hertfordshire Tel: 01707 284662 Joint List Owner: [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: An informal open list set up by UKSG - Connecting the Information Community [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richardson Andy (RDE) Colchester Hospital Uni NHS Foundation Tr Sent: 21 August 2009 09:20 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [LIS-E-RESOURCES] A Friday thought..... On my North Kent to North East Essex bike ride this morning I was mulling over my past week of attempts at journal linking and statistics gathering... as you do at 70-ish mph in the outside lane of the A12.... What I want from my institutional subscription is two things. My institutional users to gain access to it under the terms of the licence To be informed of my users use of that subscription And I don't want to spend half my week trying to work out how to link it or how to gain access to 10 publisher administration sites to get any useful usage stats. So any publishers out there concentrating on delivering easy access (and that doesn't just mean IP address - coz some institutions like the NHS would have to enable the whole of the NHS this way!!!!! - the main reason why we have Athens) and send me - as the subscription manager - regular usage updates.... will gain my grateful thanks. Yep it's been a frustrating week......... Andy Richardson Health Specialist Librarian Multi Professional Resource Centre Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust tel: 01206745982 email: [log in to unmask] lis-e-resources is a UKSG list - http://www.uksg.org/serials UKSG groups also available on Facebook and LinkedIn lis-e-resources is a UKSG list - http://www.uksg.org/serials UKSG groups also available on Facebook and LinkedIn