Plumbing and Counting… Joe Zucca Assessment, Planning and Publications Librarian University of Pennsylvania Plumbing and Counting…An Update on the Penn

Plumbing and Counting…

Joe ZuccaAssessment, Planning and Publications LibrarianUniversity of Pennsylvania

Plumbing and Counting…An Update on the Penn Library Data Farm

ALCTS: Best Practices: Collection Management and the Application of New Measures for Library Assessment


1. User initiates a session using pages spawned by Oracle

Schematic View of the Clickstream

2. URS db swaps handle for authentic url

3. Proxy scan

5. URS logs event 5.1 Proxy server logs the event

5.2 Data Farm

3.1 Authentication challenge

4. Pass to vendor site


Transaction Tables

Resources Tables

Domain Map

Person Resolution

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Data Farm Web Site URS DB

E-Resources Database (Elec. Acquisitions)

VoyagerData Farm Schema & Key Relays

Proxy Source


The “Back 40”


All Electronic Resources 3,885,753 100.0% 87,824 100.0%

Licensed Resources 3,345,800 86.3% 81,849 93.2%

Public Web Resources 537,822 13.9% 5,956 6.8%

Penn-Created Resources 228,461 05.9% 3,217 3.7%

Penn Research Guides 124,159 03.2% 1,746 2.0%

Government Resources 62,568 01.6% 1,768 2.0%

E-Resource Use By Broad Category. All Domains & Wharton 18 Month Survey Measured in E-Resource Requests

All Wharton

Domains Cml % Domain Cml%


Factiva 8440LexisNexis Academic 4775ABI/Inform - Proquest 4313Business Source Premier (EBSCO) 3100Hoover's Online 2460Multex 2337First Call 2309Investext Plus 1766Thomson Research 1720Business and Industry 1662ISI Citation Indexes 1617EconLit 1363Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys 1273MEDLINE 1128Funding Investments - Course Guide 1127LIVEDGAR 1100Dow Jones Interactive 1072D&B International Million Dollar Database 957PsycINFO 882JSTOR 864

Top-20 Licensed Resources Used in the Wharton Domain 18 Month Survey Measured in E-Resource Requests


SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 410 12.1%LAW SCHOOL 219 6.5%WHARTON 63 1.9%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH SYSTEM 25 0.7%ADMINISTRATIVE DOMAINS 18 0.5%SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 15 0.4%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA 9 0.3%NURSING 7 0.2%GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 6 0.2%VETERINARY MEDICINE 6 0.2%SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE 4 0.1%MUSEUM 1 0.0%SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK 1 0.0%OFF-CAMPUS 1079 31.9%LIBRARY 1066 31.5%RESIDENCE 309 9.1%UNRESOLVED - no host name assigned 85 2.5%UNKNOWN - in Penn domain, not in assignments DB 35 1.0%LABORATORY 27 0.8%

Use of the Philosopher’s Index 18 Month Survey Measured in Login Requests


VANPELT

ECLASSROOM

COMPUTER LABS VP

FINE ARTOTHER

LOCATIONS

BIOMED STAFF

Use of the Philosopher’s Index Within Libraries 18 Month Survey Measured in Login Requests (1,066 logins)


How Users Navigate to Electronic Resources. 18 Month Survey Measured in Requests for E-Resources by Referrer

E-resource locator 2,399,022 61.7%

Null Referrer (bookmarks & naughty browsers) 732,444 18.8%

Health Sci Homepage 268,396 6.9%

Library Guides & Help Pages 78,835 2.0%

OPAC 62,633 1.6%

Main Homepage 33,002 0.8%

Google (non-Penn) 28,782 0.7%

Lippincott Homepage 10,839 0.3%

Handle URLs (oops) 6,444 0.2%

Library FAQ 1,122 0.0%

All Other 264,234 6.8%

Total 3,885,735 100%


E-Resource Tool – How Do “Communities” Work


Profile of Community Use - Philosophy 18 Month Survey Measured in Login Requests (7,936 logins, 190 resources)

Facts about Readers Who Select the Philosophy Community:

Avoid Title-Word Searches (only 1% of request)

Usually Browsed by Resource Type (71% of the time)

Prefer Resource Types, in Rank Order: 1. E-Journal 2. Databases, Article Indexes 3. Encyclopedia 4. E-Book,

5. Library Research Guide

Use Up to 12 Different Literature Indexes

Read 170 Different E-Journals in the Field

Use 4 Encyclopedia

Seldom Use Catalogs?


Today: Static Search, User-Initiated Search of the Repository

Tomorrow: Dynamic Knowledge Channels: The “Portal-Friendly” Data Farm

Data Relays in the Future?


How Are the Data Used?

Analyze Cost-Efficiency of Licensed Resources


Joe ZuccaAssessment, Planning and Publications LibrarianUniversity of Pennsylvania

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Plumbing and Counting…An Update on the Penn Library Data Farm

ALCTS: Best Practices: Collection Management and the Application of New Measures for Library Assessment


Multiple Vendors. Regression of Data Farm Login Requests on Vendor Session Counts, Jl2003-Dec2003 [63 observations]

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ScienceDirect: Regression of Data Farm Counts on Elsevier Article View Counts, Jl2003-Dec2003. [1,270 observations]

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