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Below are definitions used in usage statistics for the following online
reference databases:
AncestryPlus
EBSCOHost
HeritageQuest
Literature Resource Center
netLibrary
OverDrive Digital Audiobooks
ReferenceUSA
What Do I Read Next?
WorldCat
These definitions were created from vendor-supplied glossaries and definitions found in the reports themselves.
To see the tables of numbers for these services, go to the Online Reference Database Statistics Main Page.
| Sessions: | Number of logins to AncestryPlus. |
| Average Session Time: | Length of an average session. This is determined by dividing the total amount of time SCLS patrons and staff were logged into AncestryPlus by the total number of sessions. |
| Total Page Views: | The number of times any page within AncestryPlus was viewed, including the front page, the search results page, a record page, the advanced search page. |
| Searches: | Number of searches performed on any of the EBSCOHost databases. |
| Sessions: | Number of logins to any of the EBSCOHost databases. |
| Abstracts: | Number of abstracts viewed, printed, or saved through the EBSCOHost interface. Fulltext articles are not included. If an abstract is printed and saved, this abstract would be counted twice. |
| Full-text Articles (HTML): | Number of Full-text articles viewed, printed, or saved through the EBSCOHost interface. If a full-text article is printed and saved, this abstract would be counted twice. |
| PDFs: | Number of PDF files viewed, printed, or saved through the EBSCOHost interface. If a PDF is printed and saved, this abstract would be counted twice. |
| Views: | I.e., pageviews. A page is defined as any file dished out by a web server that would generally be considered a web document. This includes HTML pages (.html, .htm, .shtml), script-generated pages (.cgi, .asp, .cfm, etc.), and plain-text pages. Image files (.jpeg, .gif, .png, etc.), sound files (.wav, .aiff, etc.), video files (.mov, etc.), and other non-document files do not count as pages. Each time a file defined as a page is served, a pageview is registered by Urchin. |
| Searches: | Counted for each search form submitted or search link selected in the database. Browsing categories in Literature Resource Center, such as "Author by Type Search", will count as a search. |
| Sessions: | Counted each time a user enters Literature Resource Center (LRC). |
| Connect Time (through 2003): | Total length of time users spend LRC. It is counted starting when a user enters a database and ends when exiting, or timing out, of a database. |
| Total Fulltext: | Full-content units examined. |
| Retrievals/ Total Retrievals: |
The sum of all full-text, abstract, and citation records downloaded, examined, or otherwise supplied to the user, to the extent these are recordable and controlled by the Gale server rather than the browser. |
| Turnaways (Through July 2003): | Counted each time a login into LRC fails because the simultaneous user limit has been reached. |
| Usage: | All accesses on all purchased netLibrary titles. This includes browses, checkouts, and downloads. These numbers do NOT include accesses to the public domain titles included in netLibrary. |
| Accounts created: | Number of new users registered. |
| Books turned away: | Number of titles which could not be accessed because the number of simultaneous users was exceeded. |
| Total turnaways: | Number of times that attempts to access a netLibrary title were not successful because the number of simultaneous users was exceeded. |
| Circulation: | Number of titles checked out (not necessarily downloaded). |
| Maximum Access: | Titles bought under the special "always available" plan. |
| New Patrons: | Number of new users registered. |
| Logins: | Number of times a computer sees the opening screen where the Business database selection appears and then click into the actual page where you can conduct a search. |
| Searches: | This is a count of every time the database is hit, thus it is every time a SEARCH NOW! is click and a list appears. |
| Previewed Records : | If you looked at 3 pages of listings and each page contained 20 listings, than this number would be 60. |
| # of Print/Detail Views: | This is the number of times that someone clicked on the PRINT or DETAILED buttons from a preview page. |
| Total Records Printed or Viewed: | Let's say that you tagged 10 records and hit Detail. This would add 10 hits to this number. If you printed out 10 listings, the same things happen. |
| Searches: | Counted for each search form submitted or search link selected in the database. |
| Sessions: | Counted each time a user enters What Do I Read Next? |
Total Retrievals: |
The sum of all full-text, abstract, and citation records downloaded, examined, or otherwise supplied to the user, to the extent these are recordable and controlled by the Gale server rather than the browser. |
| Searches: | Number of searches performed in WorldCat |
| Sessions: | Number of successful logins to WorldCat. |
| 100% capacity: | Percentage of sessions that used the maximum of the simultaneous users |
| Session turnaways: | Percentage of the total attempts to log on to WorldCat that were not successful because the simultaneous user limit had already been reached. |
| Total turnaways: | Number of times that attempts to log on to WorldCat were not successful because the simultaneous user limit had already been reached. |
For more information about database statistics, contact Heidi Moe.
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