Hi, Birdie,

Our library recently implemented the Scholarly Stats portal as of last
January.  I find it very convenient as far as being able to populate one
spreadsheet with multiple vendor statistics.  However, this same venue
means you have to cut and paste onto other worksheets when you want to
have a single vendor's stats broken out.
The only drawback is waiting for vendors to supply stats.  A drawback:
even though COUNTER compliant, sometimes, vendors may not be able to
provide stats in time for the next month's report.  According to
COUNTER, they have 30 days from the last day of the month to supply the
stats for that month.  Scholarly Stats releases reports by the 5th day
of each month, so if a vendor misses the deadline, you have to wait to
get the stats on the next reporting period.  We've had issues with
having stats for multiple title collections on one vendor platform not
being reported, and are still trying to determine if it is because
Scholalry Stats can only report one collection per vendor, or if it has
to do with how the vendor is presenting the data to them, but, generally
speaking, it does save you time and energy by collecting the data for
you.

I hope that info gives a bit of insight....we are still "tinkering" with
the portal;  it gets put on the back burner when daily life at the
office gets busy, and it's always busy!  But,
I am glad we purchased it, given the alternative of collecting usage
stats...

Joanne

Joanne V. Romano, MLS
Serials and Electronic Resources Librarian
Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library
1133 John Freeman Blvd.
Houston, TX  77030
713-799-7144
fx:   713-799-7180
joanne.romano@exch.library.tmc.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Karen Tschanz
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 4:14 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] software or techniques for gathering use
statistics

Hi, Birdie:

This interests us too, please do summarize to the list. Thanks! kst

Karen S. Tschanz,  M.L.S., M.B.A., M.S.O.D.
Asst. Prof./Chair, Content Management
Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D., Library, AB-241
Medical College of Georgia
1451 Laney-Walker Boulevard
Augusta, GA 30912
Phone: (706) 721-9912
Fax: (706) 721-6006
E-mail: ktschanz@mail.mcg.edu

>>> Birdie MacLennan <bmaclenn@UVM.EDU> 05/19/2008 5:08 PM >>>
Hi there,

We are interested in software to help us consolidate and make more
efficient the process of gathering use statistics for our electronic
resources.  I am aware of Scholarly Stats and have read here and there
about the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI)
(are there places that have implemented this??).

I am just wondering what libraries are doing to gather usage data?
And if you have any tips or tricks or software or technology tools
that you especially like, that harvests statistical data so you don't
have to do this one resource or package at a time.

Any help or insights will be greatly appreciated.
Feel free to reply directly to the list.
I'll be happy to summarize responses, if I get enough of them.
Thanks!

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         Birdie MacLennan
         Bailey/Howe Library            E-mail:  bmaclenn@uvm.edu
         University of Vermont           AIM/IM:   birdieatbailey
         538 Main Street                  Phone:   802-656-2016
         Burlington, VT  05405, USA         Fax:   802-656-4038
     Library Associate Professor ; Coordinator, Serials & Cataloging
                Interim Head, Collection Management Services