About The Usage
Statistics
This feature provides a
numerical picture of how frequently the GaleNet databases to
which you subscribe are being accessed. A total is available
for every month beginning with October, 1998. Your usage
statistics are cumulative and will always display figures
from past months.
Frequency of Updates
Usage statistics are
refreshed once a day between Midnight and 5:00 a.m.
The figure cited for the
current month will include use from the beginning of the
month up to (but not including) the current day. (On
November 2nd, for example, the figure will only reflect one
day's usage.) To see usage statistics for a complete month,
view those statistics on the first day of the following
month.
For Further
Assistance
If you have any questions
about your library's usage statistics that are not covered
in these Help Pages, please contact your Sales
Representative or Robin Sabbath, Usage person, robin.sabbath@galegroup.com, 1-800-877-4253, ext 1884.
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Viewing, Printing and
Downloading
The usage statistics report
that you create can be viewed online or printed by using
your browser's "Print" function. We will soon include an
option that will enable you to download statistics.
Building Your Usage
Report
The GaleStat home page
offers options to customize the usage statistics included in
your report. Additional choices can be made from the report
pages you create.
GaleStat Home Page
After you have logged on
with your username and password this is the first page you
will see. Make a selection from the two options described
below, then click on "Get Report."
- Select
a Reporting Month
Use this drop down box to select the month that you want
to see statistics for. Statistics are available for
October 1, 1998 on.
Summary
Report
The summary report shows
your total usage on a database-by-database basis for the
selected month.
The categories found on the
Summary Report are:
- GaleNet
Products - This
is an alphabetical list of all of the GaleNet products
you can access. For Associations Unlimited and the
GaleNet Literary Databases (Contemporary Authors,
Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary
Biography), which can be subscribed to in different
modular combinations and cross searched, your report will
display cumulated usage total. To see a breakout of the
usage for each of the individual components of these
modules, click on the product name.
- Product
Breakout Report -
If you subscribe to more than one Associations Unlimited
module, or to more than one of the Gale Literary
Databases (Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary
Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography), this report
shows a breakout of how your patrons combined the
databases in their searching.
Not Elsewhere
Classified.
The hits counted in this category are valid searches
and entry retrievals within this database that the
usage statistics program could not classify into one
of the previous categories.
- Searches
Submitted - This
category tracks the number of searches that you have run
in this database for the month selected. Each time you
submit a search it generates a single "Search Submitted."
If you modify a search and resubmit it that will generate
one more 'search run.'
- Entries
Retrieved - This
category counts the number of entries that you looked at
in this database. If your search returned 15 entries in
the search results list, and you retrieved two by
clicking on them, you would generate two 'entries
retrieved.' If you have retrieved an entry and you click
on a hypertext link within that entry to a related entry,
clicking on that hypertext link will generate one more
'entry retrieved.'
For example, if you
search DISCovering Science database for "Bears" your
results will include 15 entries. If you then click on the
entry entitled "Bears," you will have generated a single
'entry retrieved.' When you click on the "Polar Bears"
hyperlink within the "Bears" entry, you will generate one
more 'entry retrieved.'
If you revisit an entry
during your session by using your browser's back button,
you will not generate another 'entry retrieved.' Or, if
your library uses a proxy server in your network,
multiple requests for an entry that has been cached will
not result in additional 'entries retrieved' within the
time-limits of your cache.
If you are within a
database such as What Do I Read Next? which allows you to
create a Keeper List, then each time you view entries
from that Keeper List it will generate an additional
'entry retrieved.'
If you are within a
database such as Associations Unlimited which has hot
links to a listees Web site and you follow one of those
links to the Web site it will not generate an 'entry
retrieved.' Returning to GaleNet from this other Web page
can only be accomplished through your browsers back
button and that return will not generate an 'entry
retrieved,' provided you have not set your browsers
refresh function to "Every time."
- Help - This category tracks the number
of times that patrons at your location clicked on either
the "Help" or "About" files for that database. A high
number here may indicate a need for additional user
training. Contact your GaleNet Sales Representative to
discuss available training resources.
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