Selected Statistics Resources
Presentations
Electronic Resources & Libraries, Austin, TX, January 31, 2010. Processing, Storing, and Presenting Use Data
Online Resources:
lib-stats listserv: "Lib-Stats hosts information useful for the analysis of usage statistics in academic (and other) libraries. Current issues are debated on the lib-stats mailing list." To sign up for the mailing list, send an email to lib-stats-request@ncl.ac.uk.
microsoft.public.excel: From Google groups. A general discussion group for Excel users. More specialized groups are also listed in Google groups. A good source for VBA macros.
OzGrid Forum: A good source for Excel tips and VBA macros.
PivotTable Tutorial: This tutorial was created for the use of VIVA members. Please feel free to use or adapt as desired.
Sandpit:
The following files are the examples used in the "Manipulating Use Data" session at ICOLC Montreal, April 2007.
extended_report_sourcedata.xls
journals_example_sourcedata.xls
Vendor Information:
A list of Vendors that supply COUNTER-compliant reports in XML is available on the Project COUNTER website: http://www.projectcounter.org/articles.html. Please note that this list includes only vendors that supply COUNTER-compliant reports - this is not a definitive list of vendors that supply stats data in XML.