New Service Announcement: ScholarlyStats

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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 libraries and for a CDL managed consortial account. Beginning in 2008, two new ScholarlyStats accounts will be added to our service: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Library and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Library.

 

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 Science Online, ACM Digital Library, ACS, American Meteorological Society, BioOne, Blackwell, British Medical Journal, Cambridge University Press, EBSCO, Elsevier, Highwire, HW Wilson, IEEE Xplore, Institute of Physics Publishing, Informaworld, IngentaConnect, JSTOR, Mary Ann Liebert, Springer, Nature, OCLC, Oxford University Press, Project Muse, Proquest, Public Library of Science, Royal Society of Chemistry, Scitation, Thomson Gale, Thomson ISI, Wiley, SilverPlatter, and OvidSP.

 

ScholarlyStats is continuing to expand their list of platforms. Later this year, CSA and SAGE will be covered.

 

 

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 both Thomson ISI (Journal Citation Reports) and Innovative Interfaces (Electronic Resource Management System).

 

 

ScholarlyStats is planning to build consortial usage reports late in 2008. A single account will than allow UC libraries to get access to the aggregated usage reports across all libraries, instead of the 11 separate logins now needed. In addition, campus-by-campus data will be displayed in a single view. Other functionalities will be added too.