Thanks to everyone who has replied!  I’ve gotten some good tips, and made a first stab at the list I needed.  (Sent it to my colleague to see if the list looks like it includes the ones she would expect to be there.)

 

The “something obvious” I was missing was to use VLOOKUP.  My journal knowledgebase (EBSCO’s Holdings Management) does include subject areas, though they’re missing for about a third of the journals.  And of course VLOOKUP doesn’t work so well when there’s no ISSN/eISSN to key off of.  But it seems like a reasonable start.  The other helpful tip that multiple people mentioned was to use a link resolver report rather than relying on the platform-based JR1.

 

I’m also wondering if I should take a closer look at Intota Assessment, as a couple of you said it has a usage report that includes journal disciplines. [jealous]

 

Thanks again for the quick help!

Derrik

 

 

 

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

derrik.hiatt@tamucc.edu

(361) 825-2355

 

 

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