Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 16:45:52 -0400
From: Susan Markley <susan.markley@villanova.edu>
Subject: WEBPAGE FOR USE STATISTICS

Villanova University has been collecting use statistics for our
electronic journals since 1998.  All our online titles are linked to an
OPAC record. We have no problem with titles when a vendor or publisher
supplies their own use statistics, however, we have no way to record use
when the patron links from our OPAC record to a title that does not
supply its own statistics.We would like to count these titles also and
have heard that some libraries create an intervening web page between
their own library's web page and the actual journal.  The URL of this
web page is used in the 856 field of bib records and simply takes the
patron to a virtually blank web page which counts the hit and then takes
the user to the e-journal site itself.  If any library has tackled this
approach to gather use statistics, could you please explain how this
intervening web page was created?  We use Endeavor if that makes any
difference.

Susan Markley

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