counting use of resources

[Isabel Danforth]

We have a page which contains links to a variety of remote databases.  Some
of these products do not provide us with statistics and we would like to at
least get a count of how many people use them.

Our web hosting site allows us to run analog against the log files and get
counts of how many people hit a page.  Using that tool, I can see a way to
collect some counts.

Scenario 1)
open for very short time a window that would automatically then go to the
designated URL for the electronic resource.

Scenario 2)
Open a small help window for the resource as well as going to the
electronic resource.  The problem with this one, is that I am sure I will
be left with some of those small windows left open.

Does anyone have any other suggestions or ideas?  I would appreciate any
help here.

Thanks in advance.

Isabel
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Isabel L. Danforth
danforth at tiac.net  
Russell Library - Middletown, CT
http://www.lioninc.org/russell/
Coordinator of Librarians' Online Support Team
http://gnacademy.tzo.org/lost/
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