Hey Derrik,
I've done this manually here and there by finding all title in a given subject area based on a catalog search and then getting that list of titles into a spreadsheet. On the same spreadsheet I then list the coverage for each title within each database or platform within which we have coverage. Do this for each major subject area/discipline. Then grab the statistics excel sheets for the given platforms and list the usage data for each title and each platform. I haven't really seen a platform thus far that offers a shortcut. Searching for only statistics in a given discipline within a given platform would be super helpful as the task I described above can get pretty time consuming and painful depending on the scope of your electronic resource collection.
Ian O'Hara
Serials & Electronic Resources Clerk
Weinberg Memorial Library
University of Scranton
Scranton, PA
Dear collective wisdom,
A reference librarian here has asked me for a list of the most heavily-used journals in a particular discipline. I told her that usage stats are reported by platform, and that I’m not aware of any way to pull a usage report that is sorted
or filtered by discipline. We have a usage collecting tool to combine all the platforms into a single report, but again, no way to filter by discipline. It would have to be a title-by-title lookup.
But my colleague’s request seems so reasonable that it makes me wonder if I’m missing something obvious. Do any of you know of a way to get a usage report for a specific discipline, or sort/filter a usage report by discipline?
Thanks!
Derrik
C. Derrik Hiatt
Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian
Mary and Jeff Bell Library
Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi
(361) 825-2355
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