[Eril-l] Usage Statistical Tool

[Angela Galvan]

I'm also interested in this - much of our SUSHI harvester is in need of
repair. I am not sure it is worth the effort to prove Intota isn't able to
function as it might.

-Angela

Angela Galvan
Eresources Manager
Brown University Library
asgalvan at brown.edu

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 1:15 PM, Peter D Verheyen <pdverhey at syr.edu> wrote:

> All,
>
> Just subscribed to list on the recommendation of a colleague, and found
> this thread in the list archive for January 2018, http://lists.eril-l.org/
> pipermail/eril-l-eril-l.org/2018-January/004169.html. I posted the
> conundrum and question regarding Intota below to the ARL Assess list with
> little response. Perhaps there will be more thoughts here…
>
> I’m faced with a conundrum… We use Serials Solutions’ Intota Assessment to
> manage our e-resources and the data we use to report out to ARL, ACL, …
>
> Before using this, we harvested the data from each vendor manually and
> combined them to create our annual  reports. Intota does this for us and
> cleans the data, but over the past year I have seen increasing numbers of
> vendors drop out of allowing their data to be harvested by Intota by going
> to two factor authentication (something Intota does not want to deal with).
> For those that offered it, I switched the vendor statistics configuration
> over to a SUSHI link, but even there they have problems. Add to this that
> many vendors we subscribe to do not offer COUNTER compliant reports that
> can be harvested by Intota.
>
> So, my question is, what are others doing to gather their data for
> reporting (and other) uses, how are you dealing with increasing gaps in
> usage data due to vendors like Intota not being able to harvest, and what
> other options are there besides trying to go out and gather and create your
> own reports and try to fit things together. I’m sure Intota is not the only
> one having issue with creating these consolidated and standardized reports.
>
> This has been an increasingly ongoing concern, and this question here
> triggered by being asked “what level of confidence do you have in your
> e-resource usage data?”
>
> Many thanks for any thoughts,
>
> Peter
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