[Eril-l] use stats - COUNTER 3 to COUNTER 4 experience

[Remy, Charlie]

Cathy,

Just out of curiosity what was recently removed from EBSCO’s CINAHL? Was it full text content from a particular publisher? Or an embargo put on this content? I wasn’t aware that a great deal of content had been removed. We have CINAHL Complete here at UTC.

Have your EBSCO search statistics stayed consistent? We’ve seen those drop as well. At first I assumed that people were using our WorldCat discovery platform but in reality our searches in many EBSCO databases actually went up in 2013 (sometimes only by a few hundred searches, other times by nearly a thousand) after we put the WorldCat search box on our website in the summer of 2012 (I compared 2012 and 2013 COUNTER search reports).

I decided to look a little deeper now and here’s what I’m noticing:

I compared our 2013 DB1 reports in COUNTER versions 3 and 4. Version 4 stats were often down by a couple hundred searches for the same period.

I compared 2013 and 2014 DB1 COUNTER version 4 reports and that’s where I noticed *significant* drops in the searches. Many of our EBSCO databases got half the searches in 2014 that they got in 2013.  And this is comparing data from the same version 4 of the COUNTER reports. This would seem to indicate that the problem isn’t related to the change in COUNTER versions…

I’m curious to see what others are noticing with EBSCO stats.

Thanks.

Charlie


Charlie Remy
Assistant Professor
Electronic Resources and Serials Librarian
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Library
UTC-Dept 6456
600 Douglas St.
Chattanooga, TN 37403
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On May 14, 2015, at 8:59 AM, Catherine C Tuohy <tuohyc at emmanuel.edu<mailto:tuohyc at emmanuel.edu>> wrote:

Hi Chrysanna,

I have seen several trends… I attribute some EBSCO retrieval number decrease to content being found elsewhere such as our publisher collections.  The patron may start searching in EBSCO, but are often being guided through our SFX link resolver to Sage, Taylor and Francis, Science Direct, Oxford, Wiley, Ovid (for nursing) platforms.

Recently there was a large deletion from EBSCO’s Cinahl database, which I noticed in my SFX revision, but I was glad to see we had coverage of many of these titles in our various publisher collections.  We also watch usage in terms of the curriculum for that year per semester and see how that affects things or what happens when we add new research and course guides.

Ebooks are getting more use and being assigned by faculty as well, which might mean less time being spent in the aggregator databases than when we did not have ebook platforms usage to measure.  Sometimes you have to look at what might have increased use when you see something decrease.

Not sure it this describes your particular environment.  Sincerely,  Cathy

Catherine C. Tuohy
Assistant Director of Technology and Technical Services
Emmanuel College Library
400 The Fenway
Boston, MA 02115
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Subject: Re: [Eril-l] use stats - COUNTER 3 to COUNTER 4 experience

Chrysanna,

I’ve definitely noticed a significant drop in usage statistics for our EBSCO databases but I haven’t thought to attribute this to the change in COUNTER versions. EBSCO Support looked into it and said that everything looks fine on their end. So perhaps the change in COUNTER versions is affecting the stats…

Charlie


Charlie Remy
Assistant Professor
Electronic Resources and Serials Librarian
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Library
UTC-Dept 6456
600 Douglas St.
Chattanooga, TN 37403
charlie-remy at utc.edu<mailto:charlie-remy at utc.edu>
Tel. 423-425-4470

On May 13, 2015, at 10:05 PM, Chrysanna Beazley <Chrysanna.Beazley at aucklandcouncil.govt.nz<mailto:Chrysanna.Beazley at aucklandcouncil.govt.nz>> wrote:

Hi everyone,

With the change from COUNTER3 to COUNTER4 has anyone experienced lower usage stats for certain vendors? In particular I have noticed our views seem lower now for our Ebsco, Oxford, and Alexander St databases.
Have you had a similar experience, and has any explanation been provided?

Thanks,
Chrysanna

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