ScholarlyStats Service

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ScholarlyStats is a service licensed by CDL that provides a single point of access to standardized consolidated usage statistics reports from many of the largest and most important journal publishers and databases providers. With this timely access to consolidated usage statistics, UC libraries can analyze usage of electronic resources more easily and more effectively. Currently, the most up-to-date monthly COUNTER usage reports are posted on ScholarlyStats for the 10 UC campus library accounts, 2 UC national laboratories accounts and a CDL systemwide account.

The current platforms that ScholarlyStats collects usage reports from on a monthly basis cover the major electronic resources licensed as Tier 1 and Tier 2. Below is the list of platforms on ScholarlyStats:

AAAS	Mary Ann Liebert
ACM Digital Library	Meta Press
American Chemical Society	Nature Publishing Group
American Meterological Society	OCLC FirstSearch
BioOne	Oxford Journals Online
Blackwell Synergy	Ovid (Wolters Kluwer)
British Medical Journal	OvidSP
Cambridge Journals Online	Public Library of Science
EBSCOhost	Project MUSE
Elsevier ScienceDirect	ProQuest
Gale	Royal Society of Chemistry
HighWire Press	Scitation
HW Wilson	Scitation - AIP
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers	Scitation - ECS
Informaworld	Scitation - SPIE
IngentaConnect	SilverPlatter (Wolters Kluwer)
Thomson Scientific	SpringerLink
JSTOR	Wiley InterScience

ScholarlyStats is continuing to expand their list of platforms. CDL will add CSA, Safari, IOP, SAGE and SCOPUS later this year.

There are three types of reports available on ScholarlyStats:Latest Reports, Archived Reports, and Source Reports.

Latest Reports provides a suite of reports for the most recent month. Archived Reports index all the previously released monthly reports. Source Reports provides the access to the raw reports. The earliest reports UC has on ScholarlyStats date back to January 2006. Under both Latest Reports and Archived Reports sections, there are three types of reports available: Consolidated reports, Dashboard Report and a Zip file of all reports. These reports are available to open or download in CSV format, Excel format or through a zip files. Consolidated Reports includes one COUNTER-compliant Journal report and three COUNTER-compliant database reports: Full-text Article Request by title; Searches and Sessions by Database; Turnaways; and Searches and sessions by platform. Dashboard reports provide summary information based on the consolidated reports: top use journals by platform; low usage journals; top 50 journals across platforms, etc. Zip file contains all the consolidated reports and dashboard reports in a single file.

Via the SUSHI protocol, ScholarlyStats can automatically deliver consolidated reports to another system. ScholarlyStats is a current integration partner with Innovative Interfaces (Electronic Resource Management System). UC campus library staff can contact Robert Karmelich (rkarmelich@us.swets.com) at ScholarlyStats to establish the SUSHI connection between ScholarlyStats and local III ERM system with no charge. At present, ScholarlyStats is only partnering with III ERM system, not Serials Solutions, Verde and the other ERM systems.

The platforms/publishers may late posting their usage reports for a variety of reasons and can not meet ScholarlyStats monthly collection cycle deadline. Once ScholarlyStats finishes the calendar year collection cycle, they won't re-collect/correct any data in the previous years' reports. Below is the list of missing/incorrect usage reports during 2008 data collection on ScholarlyStats platform:

• Taylor & Francis was late posting their report last year. Therefore their usage reports are not included in 2008 report. However, the data is collected by CDL and it is included into the 2008 annual statistics reports posted on the CDL website.
• Elsevier ScienceDirect usage downloads are overstated by about 13% for the months of August 2008 to December 2008 for UC libraries, which makes 2008 full year Elsevier usage statistics overstated by about 5%. The 2008 usage data for Elsevier is incorrect in ScholarlyStats now and it is expected to be corrected by Elsevier in a few months.
• Wiley only loaded the full 2008 Blackwell usage for UC aggregated account. They haven't loaded the 2008 Jan-Jun usage data for Blackwell content for each individual campus account. It is expected to be fixed later this year and the full 2008 Blackwell usage data will be included into the 2008 annual statistics reports posted on the CDL website

For assistance with using any of these reports on ScholarlyStats platform, please contact Chan Li chan.li@ucop.edu.