Analytics - May 2017 Enhancements
New Digital Usage Subject Area
Using the new Digital Usage subject area, you can create reports and dashboards that support analyzing digital usage of the Alma viewer. For detailed information, see Digital Usage.
Enhancements to the Licenses, E-Inventory, and Fund Expenditure Subject Areas
The Licenses, E-Inventory, and Fund Expenditure subject areas were enhanced to allow the creation of joint reports using fields from the Licenses and E-Inventory subject areas, and the Licenses and Fund Expenditure subject areas.
To support this development, the following fields were added:
- To E-Inventory > Portfolio License and E-Inventory > Electronic Collection License:
- License Note
- License Second Party Signed By
- License Second Party Signed On
- License URI
- License Signed was renamed License Signed On
- To Licenses > License Header:
- License Creator
- License Modified By
- To Funds Expenditure, the PO Line License dimension was added with the same fields as Licenses > License Header.
In addition, the Licenses Analysis dashboard was added. You can use the drop-down lists to filter the results.
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Licenses Analysis
Digital Usage Fields Added to the Link Resolver Usage Subject Area
The following fields were added to the Open URL Context Measures dimension of the Link Resolver Usage subject area to support the reporting of digital usage:
- Number of Digital Services – the number of digital representations that appear when a user clicks View It
- Number of Electronic Services – the number of electronic services that appear when a user clicks View It
- Number of Digital Clicked Services – the number of digital representations a user clicks from the View It menu
- Number of Electronic Clicked Services – the number of electronic services a user clicks from the View It menu
In addition, the OpenURL Context Measures folder was reorganized and reordered for better clarity.
![Digital Usage Fields.png](https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/@api/deki/files/52721/Digital_Usage_Fields.png?revision=1)
Digital Usage Fields
Support Added for Additional Types of COUNTER Reports
The following fields were added to the Usage Data Details dimension of the Usage Data subject area to support additional types of COUNTER reports:
- Support for COUNTER report BR3 was added:
- BR3 - Title Access Denied (license limit exceeded)
- BR3 - Title Access Denied (item not licensed)
- Support for COUNTER report JR1 GOA was added:
- JR1 GOA - Journal Usage Counter Gold Open Access (total)
- JR1 GOA - Journal Usage Counter Gold Open Access (html)
- JR1 GOA - Journal Usage Counter Gold Open Access (pdf)
- Existing measure “BR1 – Book Success Title Requests was renamed BR1 – Book Success Title Requests (total):
- Support for COUNTER report BR1 already existed. A measure for BR1 reports BR1 - Book Success Title Requests (html) was added.
- Support for COUNTER report BR1 already existed. A measure for BR1 reports BR1 - Book Success Title Requests (pdf) was added.
- Existing measure BR2 – Book Success Title Requests was renamed BR2 – Book Success Title Requests (total)
- Support for COUNTER report BR2 already existed. A measure for BR2 reports BR2 - Book Success Title Requests (html) was added.
- Support for COUNTER report BR2 already existed. A measure for BR2 reports BR2 - Book Success Title Requests (pdf) was added.
The following figure illustrates the new fields:
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New Usage Data Details Fields
Material Type Indicator Filter Added to the Usage via COUNTER Report Dashboard
The Material Type Indicator filter was added to the Trends by Month tab of the Usage via COUNTER Report dashboard. You can use this new feature to filter the report results by material type.
![material_type_indicator.png](https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/@api/deki/files/52543/material_type_indicator.png?revision=1)
Material Type Indicator Filter
Additional Analytics Enhancements
- The Leganto Image Included field was added to the Citation Copyright dimension of the Course Reserves subject area. It indicates whether an image was included in a Leganto digitization request.
- The Citation License Type field was added to the Reading List Citation dimension of the Course Reserves subject area. This is an internal parameter that indicates the type of the citation license—for example: SIPX, Creative common, and DCS.
- The following date fields were added to the Reading List Citation dimension of the Course Reserves subject area:
- Leganto Citation Visibility Start Date
- Leganto Citation Visibility End Date
- Leganto Citation Material Visibility Start Date
- Leganto Citation Material Visibility End Date
In addition, the Section Visibility field was added to the Leganto Reading List Section dimension. It indicates whether the section is hidden from students outside of the section dates. - The Copyright Status field was added to the Citation Copyright dimension of the Course Reserves subject area. This field was also added to the following default reports in the /shared/Alma/Course Reserves/Reports directory:
- Copyright - CLA Reporting Template - UK
- Copyright - Reporting Template - Australia
- The following out-of-the-box reports were added to /shared/Alma/Requests/Reports:
- All items in acquisition technical services and have an active patron physical item request
- All items with both an active binding request and an active external digitization request
- The Number of Mobile Activities and Number of Non-Mobile Activities fields were added to the Reading Lists dimension of the Leganto Student Usage subject area. These fields can be used to create reports that display the percentage of usage from non-mobile and mobile devices.
- The Invoice Line Reporting Code and Invoice Line Reporting Code Description fields were added to the Invoice Line dimension of the Funds Expenditure subject area. This was done for consistency with the fields of the PO Line dimension.
- The Partner Request Status field of the Borrowing Request Details dimension of the Borrowing Requests subject area was renamed Partner Request Status (to be deprecated). This change was made because the data that appears in this field is dependent on the flow of the resource sharing request, which in many cases does not get updated. The field will be removed in a future release.