About OCLC Usage Statistics
Overview
OCLC Usage Statistics allows you to access statistical data summarized at the institution level for a variety of products. FirstSearch users can also access COUNTER 5 reports.
Report availability
Reports may be available as early as the third calendar day of the month.
- WorldShare Interlibrary Loan, WorldCat Navigator, and Digital Collections reports become available by the tenth day of each month for the preceding month.
- Online Cataloging monthly reports are available within five days of the end of the preceding month.
- Current month daily reports are available the following day.
- Once a monthly report is available for a preceding month, daily reports for that month are deleted.
- Publisher Reports are available weekly and updated each Monday.
Note: If your library had no transactions (i.e., searches, sessions, ILL requests, etc.) for the reporting period, your library symbol will not appear as there is no data to retrieve. There may have been activity for your group or consortium, however, which is why you may see your ILL group or consortium. If you increase the number of months to retrieve, your tab will reappear.
Report access
Access to certain reports (e.g., IFM reports) is restricted to a specific authorization for security reasons. OCLC recommends signing in with your institution's designated authorization for the report type you wish to view.
For example, if your institution has access to FirstSearch and WorldShare Interlibrary Loan, signing in with your FirstSearch authorization will automatically open the FirstSearch reports screen. Although you will have access to the WorldShare Interlibrary Loan screen, you may not have access to all available reports. In order to view them, you would need to sign out and sign back in using your WorldShare Interlibrary Loan authorization.
Run a report
Sign in to OCLC Usage Statistics
- Access OCLC Usage Statistics.
- Enter your OCLC Authorization and Password
- Click Sign In.
Note: Only active OCLC authorizations have access to the Usage Statistics. To see activity on expired authorizations, use another active authorization to log on and then select the expired authorization from the navigation screen for the appropriate product and time period.
Select a report
Select an OCLC Usage Statistics report
- Click a report tab from the left navigation.
- Click the appropriate reporting period to see a list of reports available.
- Click a report group name (e.g., Institution: OCL) to expand the accordion and view all available reports in that group.
- Select a report to view from the reports listed.
Note:
- FirstSearch COUNTER 5 reports, accessible via the COUNTER report tab, will open in a new tab. See Work with FirstSearch COUNTER 5 reports for more information.
- After opening a report, click your browser's back button or the report tab to view additional reports or adjust the reporting period.
Report layout
The report layout has been formatted for ease of use/reading of the screen. Some columns of some reports may wrap the text. However, when the reports are exported, the layout will be corrected.
Please see WorldShare Interlibrary Loan Reports for an example.
Navigate reports
- Select the appropriate reporting period to see a list of reports available for that time.
- Click on the report group name (example: Institution Reports: OCL) or the arrow before the name to expand the list of reports available under that grouping.
- Select a report to view from the reports listed.
www.stats.oclc.org environment, you will need to click the browser's Back button to navigate back to the stats main page, or click the tab to the left to return to the main page for your stats.
Note: Once you have clicked on a report in theFor more information, refer to the product glossaries listed at the top of the Help window.
Report layout
The report layout has been changed for ease of use/reading of the screen. It is possible that some columns of some reports will wrap the text. However, when the reports are exported, the layout will be corrected.
Please see WorldShare Interlibrary Loan Reports for an example.
Work with reports
Work with standard reports
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You can print a report from your browser.
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Export | An Export button () appears at the top right of each report screen once the report is open. Click the Export button to download a Microsoft Excel Workbook (*.xls) to your computer. |
Email - An Email button () appears at the top right of each report screen once the report is open. | |
Send a single report |
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Schedule a report | You can schedule an unlimited amount of reports to be delivered monthly. Each scheduled report will be delivered when the statistics for the previous timeframe become available.
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Edit a scheduled report |
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Delete a scheduled report |
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Work with FirstSearch COUNTER 5 reports
See Work with FirstSearch COUNTER 5 reports for more information.