Email-based Usage Reports (TDL-hosted repositories only)

Repository usage reports are delivered via email to managers of TDL-hosted repositories on a monthly basis.

These reports include usage statistics at the Repository, Community, Collection, and Item Level. The reports are delivered in Microsoft Excel format as an email attachment to one or multiple email addresses designated by the repository manager.

To change the destination email address(es) for these reports, please contact the TDL Helpdesk at support@tdl.org.

Below is a list of statistics provided in the reports

• Repository-level statistics

  • Items added last month (number of items added to the repository in the previous month)

  • Items added in academic year (number of items added year-to-date using a September-August year)

  • Total Items (total number of items in repository on the date the report was generated)

  • Item views last month (number of item views in the previous month)

  • Item views in academic year (number of item view year-to-date using a September-August year)

  • Total item views (total number of item views since start of statistics-gathering)

  • Item downloads last month (number of downloads in the previous month)

  • Item downloads in academic year (number of downloads year-to-date using a September-August year)

  • Total item downloads (total number of downloads)

• Community-level statistics

  • Community ID

  • Community Name

  • Community URL

  • Parent Community Name

  • Items added last month

  • Items added in academic year

  • Total Items

  • Item views last month

  • Item views in academic year

  • Total item views

  • Item downloads last month

  • Item downloads in academic year

  • Total item downloads

• Collection-level Statistics

  • Parent Community Name

  • Collection ID

  • Collection Name

  • Collection URL

  • Items added last month

  • Items added in academic year

  • Total Items

  • Item views last month

  • Item views in academic year

  • Total item views

  • Item downloads last month

  • Item downloads in academic year

  • Total item downloads

• Item-level Statistics

  • Collection Name

  • Item ID

  • Item Title

  • Item URL

  • Item views last month

  • Item views in academic year

  • Total item views

  • Item downloads last month

  • Item downloads in academic year

  • Total item downloads

Usage Statistics in the DSpace UI

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Usage statistics should, as much as possible, reflect genuine, user-driven trafficc traffic and not the work of bots and spiders crawling the site. To prevent inflation of usage statistics, TDL excludes bots and spiders from the SOLR-based statistics using the official list maintained by Project COUNTER, using tools maintained by Atmire. This list of exclusions is updated monthly in TDL-hosted DSpace repositories.

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These statistics track each time a Workflow step is taken.

The dropdown on top of the page allows you to modify the time frame for the displayed statistics.

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