<div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div>I'm frustrated working on ACRL and IPEDs reports.  I've used WMS to<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">harvest</span><span class="gmail-il">counter</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">data</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>from 30+ vendors.  But the analytics team is not pulling that<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">data</span>into reports.  So I'm going back to vendor native interfaces, and combining<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">data</span>in excel spreadsheets.  :(  </div><div><br></div><div>What<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">Counter</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">data</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>do you need most to be transferred to WMS analytics?  BR2?  MR1?  MR2?  Other<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">counter</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>reports?  Please comment.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, there are two enhancement requests about this issue, one on transferring the<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">data</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>into a "<span class="gmail-il">data</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>universe" for institutions with report designer; and a second asking for specific report totals for institutions with the custom report designer.  Please comment on and vote for these enhancement requests.</div><div><br></div><div>First enhancement request:</div><div><a href="https://www.oclc.org/community/enhancements/user_forms/add-more-counter-reports-to-the-eresources-data-universe.en.html" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://www.oclc.org/<wbr>community/enhancements/user_<wbr>forms/add-more-<span class="gmail-il">counter</span>-<wbr>reports-to-the-eresources-<wbr><span class="gmail-il">data</span>-universe.en.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Add more<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">COUNTER</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>reports to the e-resources<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">data</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>universe</div><div><br></div><div>Description of Enhancement</div><div>Currently, only<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">data</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>for the DB1, BR1, JR1, and JR2 (for report designer subscribers only)<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">COUNTER</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>reports is incorporated into the<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">data</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>universe for Analytics and Report Designer. This seriously limits the functionality of these reports. License Manager can<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">harvest</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>many other<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">COUNTER</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>reports from the supported vendors, and the<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">data</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>is stored in WMS, but cannot be analyzed.</div><div><br></div><div>I would like to ask that PR1 and BR2 reports, at minimum, be added to the<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">data</span>universe as soon as possible.</div><div><br></div><div>Issues Enhancement Will Resolve</div><div>The current e-resources reports in Analytics have limited utility because there are many vendors who do not provide DB1 reports, using PR1 instead. A combined DB1/PR1 report would allow for a more complete database usage summary report.</div><div><br></div><div>Many vendors, including ebrary, do not provide BR1 and instead provide BR2 for partial item full-text access counts. A report which could include BR1 and/or BR2 in addition to JR1 would provide a more complete full-text access report.</div><div><br></div><div>Counts for searches and text/content access are required in ACRL and IPEDS statistics, and enhancement of the reporting tools within WMS would improve efficiency for library staff wishing to use WMS to generate<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">data</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>for our required statistics reporting.</div><div><br></div><div>Current Workaround</div><div>Currently, our workaround is an Excel spreadsheet [of<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">data</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>downloaded from vendors].</div><div><br></div><div>--------------</div><div><br></div><div>Second enhancement request:</div><div><a href="https://www.oclc.org/community/enhancements/user_forms/add-separate-jr1--br1-br2-mr1-and-mr2-counter-usage-summary-reports-to-eresources-reports.en.html" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://www.oclc.org/<wbr>community/enhancements/user_<wbr>forms/add-separate-jr1--br1-<wbr>br2-mr1-and-mr2-<span class="gmail-il">counter</span>-usage-<wbr>summary-reports-to-eresources-<wbr>reports.en.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Add Separate JR1, BR1, BR2, MR1, and MR2<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">COUNTER</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Usage Summary Reports to E-Resources Reports</div><div><br></div><div>Description of Enhancement</div><div>The current report, Merged<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">COUNTER</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>E-Journal/E-book Usage Summary Report, includes both JR1 and BR1<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">COUNTER</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>statistics. The report shows a grand total that includes both JR1 and BR1, but no separate totals for JR1 and BR1. ACRL reporting asks for totals for JR1, BR1 and BR2 separately, as well as asking for a total<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">count</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>for BR1 and MR1, or BR2 and MR2, depending on what is supplied by a library's vendors. Having standard reports that contain grand totals that answer standard survey questions would be easier than having a report where you still have to add up counts for multiple vendors yourself. It would be preferable to have usage summary reports for JR1, BR1, BR2, MR1 and MR2, since libraries could use the grand totals as is, and only add the BR1 and MR1 or BR2 and MR2 totals if they choose.</div><div><br></div><div>Issues Enhancement Will Resolve</div><div>Libraries could answer the ACRL questions asking for just JR1 or just BR1 or just BR2 totals easily. Libraries could add the grand totals for JR1, BR1, BR2, MR1 and MR2 as needed, depending on the requirements of ACRL or other statistical gathering requirements.</div><div><br></div><div>Current Workaround</div><div>Libraries have to add up each vendors' totals for JR1 and BR1 separately, since the current usage summary report does not include these totals. While BR2, MR1 and MR2 are not yet available in the E-Resource Universe, once they become available, having these usage summary reports available would save each library the time of having to create their own report from scratch, if they have Report Designer, and libraries without Report Designer would have easy access to their BR2, MR1 or MR2 totals.</div><div><br></div><div>Please rate and comment on these requests.  Thanks.</div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div class="gmail-m_1167314487130921857gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><font><font size="2"><font color="#888888"><b>Jeff Siemon</b>, M.Div.,MLS </font></font></font></font><font color="#888888"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> |  </span>Assoc. Professor, Electronic Resources Librarian <span style="font-size:12.8px"> |  </span>Nicholson Library</font><br style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(255,153,0)">Anderson University  <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">|</span>  1100 E. Fifth St, Anderson, IN 46012</span><br style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font color="#888888"><a href="mailto:josiemon@anderson.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">josiemon@anderson.edu</a> <br></font><div><font color="#888888"><a href="http://library.anderson.edu/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">library.anderson.edu</a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