[Eril-l] search statistics

[Athena Hoeppner]

Be careful equating Results Clicks, Record Views, and Full Text views/downloads.  A Record View might show full text, or an abstract, or just a citation. In many, many cases, Records do not show Full Text. Results Click is a step further removed from Full Text view.

As for the reasons that Search stats went down – I suspect many causes.  I’m interested in reading the discussion about it on USUS.  I looked around on the site, but did not find it. Can you give me directions?

Thanks,
Athena

Athena Hoeppner
Electronic Resources Librarian
University of Central Florida Libraries
athena at ucf.edu<mailto:athena at ucf.edu> | 407-823-5049



From: Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org] On Behalf Of Colleen A McGhee-French
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 3:59 PM
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Subject: Re: [Eril-l] search statistics

I second the link to usus.org.uk<http://usus.org.uk> for databases - more specifically http://www.usus.org.uk/hints-tips/. My understanding from ER&L 2015 was that "searches" was an inflated number, and that "result clicks" and "record views" counted actual full-text downloads. Result Clicks counts full-text requests from everything, including getting it through the catalog search engine, while Record Views covers only the requests from the database itself. The trickiness seems to come in here: "Be aware that these can reflect the same action by the user."

Thoughts?

Colleen
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