E-Resources usage statistics with EzProxy

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Session 15bDigital resource usage statisticsE-Resources usage statistics with EzProxySimon Huggard, Systems Manager, Monash University Library9 September 2008 12.40-2.00

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Outline

• About myself and Monash University• What stats do we have?• What are we doing with them• Future development• Questions/discussion

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About Monash University

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About Monash University

• MONASH UNIVERSITY – estab. 1958– 6 campuses in Victoria, Australia, 1

in Malaysia and 1 in South Africa. 57,611 students from more than

100 countries 3,589 academic staff (6,889 total

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Monash University Library

• LIBRARY– Budget: $42.2m AUD– 8 branch libraries – 3.1 million items– 33,991 e-journals – 245,687 e-books – 800 electronic databases – 292 library staff– Systems Area – 16 staff - web, MULO,

voyager/unix, help desk, it support.

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What statistics do we have

• Individual vendors (on their sites)• Ezproxy stats• Log file analysis• What about counter/SUSHI compilance?• Mapping expenditure to usage• Centralised stats

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Ezproxy statistics

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Ezproxy stats

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SFX usage – monthly averages

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Scholarly Stats – Journal reports

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Scholarly Stats – Journal reports

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E-journal web site usage

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Usage by location

• Ezproxy stats (logins) by location:

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Library web site usage

• Statistics for 2007-8 (based on Jan-June stats)

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Conclusions

• Ezproxy – good for departmental based usage

• Metalib/SFXUsage – good for full-text usage and for comparing overall

• Scholarly Stats – counter compliant and comprehensive (includes MetaLib, SFX and ezproxy/direct usage)- no breakdown by faculty/user