[Eril-l] Discovery Reporting - what aspects do you report on?

[Melissa Belvadi]

EBSCO's usage data does allow us to distinguish searches, views, etc. done
in the "native" databases compared with those in the EDS discovery
service.  That said, I've argued for years, ever since we dabbled with
"federated searching", that search and session statistics are worthless and
the only metrics that matter right now are abstracts and full text viewed.

Melissa Belvadi, UPEI

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 6:15 PM, Chrysanna Beazley <
Chrysanna.Beazley at aucklandcouncil.govt.nz> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
>
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> We recently implemented our Discovery Service i.e., Encore Duet, and I
> have been doing some preliminary investigations on how we should report on
> usage.
>
> How do you report on this usage? i.e., Do you still report on searches and
> views even though this depicts system generated activity?
>
> I have noticed you can’t report by a particular database only by a
> platform and, that views are a truer measure of usage, i.e., user generated
> activity.
>
>
>
> Any advice or recommendations would be appreciated,
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>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> *Chrysanna Beazley BA, MLIS, RLIANZA*
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Melissa Belvadi
Collections Librarian
University of Prince Edward Island
mbelvadi at upei.ca 902-566-0581
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