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Session 15b Digital resource usage statistics E-Resources usage statistics with EzProxy Simon Huggard, Systems Manager, Monash University Library 9 September 2008 12.40-2.00. Outline. About myself and Monash University What stats do we have? What are we doing with them Future development
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Session 15b Digital resource usage statistics E-Resources usage statistics with EzProxy Simon Huggard, Systems Manager, Monash University Library 9 September 2008 12.40-2.00
Outline • About myself and Monash University • What stats do we have? • What are we doing with them • Future development • Questions/discussion
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 staff)
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.
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
Usage by location • Ezproxy stats (logins) by location:
Library web site usage • Statistics for 2007-8 (based on Jan-June stats)
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