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The statistics system is accessible from http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/s/stats/subscriber or http://stats.umdl.umich.edu/. From this page, you can generate a report for any public collection or any restricted collection your institution subscribes to. (In order to get statistics for restricted collections, you must access the system via an institutional IP address; there is no login or authentication by proxy.)

To generate a report, first select one or more collections. Selecting more than one collection will generate a report that lists the statistics for each collection in successive tables, not an aggregation. (Select more than one collection by holding down the control key as you click.) Next, choose which kind of report you would like to receive: custom or COUNTER.

Custom Reports

The custom report shows total usage statistics for the titles you select, as well as hits broken down by category, such as browse (by author, by title, etc.), search (Boolean, simple, etc.), and view (table of contents, full text, etc.).

In a custom report, you can view a summary of statistics by month for the lifetime of the collection or for a specific time range. The dropdown menu allows you to choose to show the report as HTML in your browser or to download an Excel file. If you have selected more than one collection, they will be displayed as a single HTML page or in multiple Excel worksheets.

By default, the custom report shows both aggregate statistics (for all institutions) and statistics for just your institution. In the HTML view, you can hide one set of statistics by clicking ‘collapse.’

COUNTER reports

COUNTER reports show a different breakdown of the statistics than is available through the custom reports.

There are three kinds of reports available through COUNTER:

• Book Report 1: Number of Successful Title Requests by Month and Title: This report counts the number of views of full texts, assuming this option is available for the publication. It will not count if a user pages through every page of an item or views every section individually.
• Book Report 2: Number of Successful Section Requests by Month and Title: This report includes all views in Book Report 1, plus views of tables of contents, individual pages, and portions of items. Therefore, this is probably a more useful metric of usage than Book Report 1. This report will give you a number that is close to (but not exactly) the number reported in the Custom report above. The slight difference is due to the somewhat more restrictive method COUNTER uses to track requests.
• Book Report 5: Total Searches by Month and Title: This report counts the total number of searches conducted per month and title.

These reports will contain statistics for all public titles and the restricted titles to which you have access. The statistics will be limited to information about your institution.

All COUNTER reports are delivered by email in Excel format. Choose one or more reports to be delivered and the year for which you would like statistics.

After submitting your request, you will see a confirmation page indicating that an email has been sent to you and noting if any of the requested reports are not available. You will receive an email from dlxs-info@umich.edu with the subject “DLPS COUNTER reports – Please verify request.” Follow the link in the email and enter the code that is provided, and you should receive the reports you requested within an hour.