Hi Derrik,

Translating between the technical realities of usage reporting and entirely reasonable requests from other librarians and administrators is an ongoing headache. It's especially problematic for titles that are purchased as a package or in aggregator databases, as they won't have fund codes. One possibility might be using your link resolver stats. I'm an SFX user, and we sometimes Use the clickthrough stat reporting from SFX, which we compare in Excel against SFX's list of all active titles. Because the two lists are coming from the same system, it's fairly easy to compare by ISSN and title as needed, using something like =COUNTIF(range, value) or VLOOKUP or a pivot table. This study out of UIC shows a strong correlation between COUNTER and SFX stats: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3634374/

Alternatively, you could use the same techniques to compare COUNTER data to a list of titles by discipline derived from your catalog (if you have LC Classification for ejournals), resolver, or an accrediting body.

Chris Bulock

Collection Coordinator for Electronic Resource Management

CSUN

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 8:59 AM Hiatt, Derrik <Derrik.Hiatt@tamucc.edu> wrote:

Dear collective wisdom,

A reference librarian here has asked me for a list of the most heavily-used journals in a particular discipline. I told her that usage stats are reported by platform, and that I’m not aware of any way to pull a usage report that is sorted or filtered by discipline. We have a usage collecting tool to combine all the platforms into a single report, but again, no way to filter by discipline. It would have to be a title-by-title lookup.

But my colleague’s request seems so reasonable that it makes me wonder if I’m missing something obvious. Do any of you know of a way to get a usage report for a specific discipline, or sort/filter a usage report by discipline?

Thanks!

Derrik

C. Derrik Hiatt

Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian

Mary and Jeff Bell Library

Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi

derrik.hiatt@tamucc.edu

(361) 825-2355

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