Usage Statistics

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Revision as of 16:20, 20 March 2012

Introduction

We have two systems for tracking usage of a publication:

• Google Analytics
• Michigan's homegrown system that's part of DLXS

As a publishing partner, your contact at MPublishing can get you access to Google Analytics for your publication. Just send an email address attached to a Google Account to your contact at MPublishing.

The information below describes Michigan's system.

The Michigan system

Michigan's system is the successor to a different system used before May 2007. Data from before May 2007 was imported from the old stats system and is unreliable.

The way the COUNTER Book Reports 1 and 2, and text views, are calculated were changed on Nov. 15, 2011. As of May 24, 2011, we are now recording section hits for encoded-text (not page-image) collections, allowing generation of COUNTER Book Report 2 for such collections.

As of March 21, 2012, the system includes PDF views and downloads as a type of view for most publications. (Previously these views were not included at all, and certain PDF views were erroneously included in the "pg/img" subtype from Jan. 7, 2011 to March 20, 2012.)

There are two interfaces to the Michigan statistics system:

• http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/s/stats/subscriber – From this page, you can generate reports for any open-access collection or for any subscription collection your institution subscribes to.
• http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/s/stats/manager – This page is only available to those who are designated as a manager of a publication. From this page, you can generate reports for any publication for which you are a manager, with statistics broken down by known institution. A publishing partner can request access to the manager interface for their publication from their contact at MPublishing.

For more information on the reports available from these two interfaces, see documentation provided by the Digital Library Production Service.