ScholarlyStats is a Usage Statistics Portal from Swets, in partnership with MPS Technologies. ScholarlyStats provides monthly consolidated and dashboard reports for journals and databases.

ScholarlyStats has been developed to provide information professionals with the tools to analyze usage of their online content. As libraries today are evolving rapidly in response to the availability of online material and remote access by users, and as library budgets are under ever-increasing pressure, the need for an organized system to monitor, maintain and support the analysis of usage statistics has become apparent.

ScholarlyStats enables libraries to outsource the administration of their usage statistics; to allow librarians to spend more time analyzing and understanding usage and less time administrating. The ScholarlyStats portal provides libraries with a single point of access for vendor usage statistics. Usage statistics reports are collected and processed monthly by the ScholarlyStats team and accessible to library staff through our user-friendly interface.

The ScholarlyStats portal provides librarians with easy access to their latest vendor usage statistics, to help:

• measure the cost effectiveness of your online content purchases
• explore usage at your institutions
• understand and analyze trends in user behavior
• identify training issues
• make budgeting decisions based upon real usage
• help demonstrate the value that online access provides to your readers

In-depth, regular and complete analysis of usage statistics is a new area of exploration for many libraries, and we are keen to make sure that all our customers can get the most out of ScholarlyStats. We also feel it is important for us to keep our fingers on the pulse of the usage statistics needs of information professionals, and will be working with our customers to develop the service over time to ensure you get the most out of your usage statistics.

The following reports are currently available

ScholarlyStats draws comparisons and allows for analysis between statistics in 1 of 8 COUNTER compliant formats:

• Journal Report 1 – full-text article requests
• Journal Report 1a - full-text article requests from an archive
• Journal Report 3 - item requests and turnaways
• Database Report 1 – searches and sessions by database
• Database Report 2 – turnaways
• Database Report 3 – searches and sessions by service
• Book Report 1 - book title requests
• Book Report 2 - book section requests

There are 9 Journal Dashboard Reports for a clearer view of trends in usage data:

• Journal Dashboard Report 1 – total number of journals by collection platform
• Journal Dashboard Report 2 – total full text article requests by collection platform
• Journal Dashboard Report 3 – average journal use by collection platform
• Journal Dashboard Report 4 - top use journals by collection platform
• Journal Dashboard Report 5 – low use journals by collection platform (including zeros)
• Journal Dashboard Report 6 – zero use journals
• Journal Dashboard Report 7 – low use journals by collection platform (excluding zeros)
• Journal Dashboard Report 8 - top 50 journals accross collection platforms
• Journal Dashboard Report 9 - proportional usage of journal titles

There are 6 Book Dashboard Reports for a clearer view of trends in usage data:

• Book Dashboard Report 1 – total number of book titles by collection platform
• Book Dashboard Report 2 – total book title requests by collection platform
• Book Dashboard Report 3 – total book section requests by collection platform
• Book Dashboard Report 4 – average book use by collection platform
• Book Dashboard Report 5 - top use books by collection platform
• Book Dashboard Report 6 – zero use books

Learn More

Brochure
ScholarlyStats (PDF)

Case Study
University of Birmingham (PDF)

Description of Services
ScholarlyStats Description (PDF)

If you are interested in ordering ScholarlyStats, then please contact us today.