Report of electronic resources accessed though EZ Proxy

[Cary Gordon]

AFAIK, log file analysis is the option. EZProxy is a light-weight program that is very good at what it does, and makes no attempt at doing anything else.

From my perspective, as long as you don’t need these numbers in real time, log analysis should be cheap, and easy to do.

Cary

On Jan 17, 2014, at 10:40 AM, Lawrence, Dan <Lawrence_D at CDE.STATE.CO.US> wrote:

> I am very interested in this as well.  We are proxying for multiple organizations and this could be of benefit.  We haven’t explored log file analysis yet, but I assumed it was the only option (http://www.oclc.org/support/services/ezproxy/documentation/loganalysis.en.html).  Would love to hear what others think.
>  
> -Dan
>  
> Dan Lawrence | Director, Networking and Resource Sharing |  State Library |  Colorado Department of Education | 201 E. Colfax Ave., Room 309, Denver, CO  80203| tel 303.866.6907 | cell 720.484.1936 | Lawrence_D at cde.state.co.us |ColoradoStateLibrary.org |
>  
> From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Michelangelo M M Viana
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 7:05 AM
> To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Report of electronic resources accessed though EZ Proxy
>  
> Dear friends,
>  
> My University would like to know if we can adopt EZ Proxy to generate accesses reports (native/customized) of electronic (web) resources, besides users authentication as web proxy.
> What we need, in fact, is to know how many times each database (or vendor website, at least) was accessed during a given period, by a given category of user.
> Eg:
> Jan-Mar/2014 – Proquest – 3,500 accesses
> Or:
> Jan-Mar/2014 – Proquest – Teachers : 1,000 accesses
> Jan-Mar/2014 – Proquest – Students: 2,500 accesses
> Jan-Mar/2014 – Proquest ­Central – Students: 2,500 accesses
> Or:
> Jan-Mar/2014 – ACM Digital Library – Students: 2,500 accesses
> Jan-Mar/2014 – Proquest Account & Tax – Teachers: 2,500 accesses
>  
> So, can we use EZ Proxy for that goal?
> If you already use it to generate this kind of reports, can you share your experiences and screenshots of the reports?
> We still knew MetriDoc (https://metridoc.library.upenn.edu/), but as we noted, it uses COUNTER reports, and we decided do not adopt it, considering that not all subscribed vendors/databases offers this type of reports.
>  
> Thanks in advance,
> Michelângelo
> Michelângelo Mazzardo Marques Viana | Setor de Suporte e Desenvolvimento 
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