Books at JSTOR Reports

What's in this article:

• What's new about Books at JSTOR reports?
• Requesting Admin Access
• Report types available
• Scheduled reports
• One-time reports
• Do I need to reschedule my book reports?
• Are Books at JSTOR reports COUNTER compliant? 
• Why don't my Books at JSTOR reports match my COUNTER reports?

For Publisher usage statistics, please visit our Publisher Support Site. For information about generating these, see usage for Journal Publishers.

Benefits of Books at JSTOR reports

• You can schedule reports yourself
• You can choose to request a one-time report or a scheduled report
• You can customize your report to be cumulative or to only contain data from a certain time period
• PDF and download columns have been combined into one "item request" metric
• DDA Consortium usage now shows in Institutional DDA Details report

Requesting Admin Access

In order to see and schedule usage reports, you will need to:

1. Create an individual JSTOR account
2. Contact support to have administrative privileges added to your account
3. You can then access Books at JSTOR Reports in your individual account

Report types available

Institutional

Consortial

Scheduled reports

Requesting a scheduled report allows you to request data to be delivered automatically to you in weekly or monthly intervals. Scheduled reports will be delivered regularly on Sundays or Mondays, depending on your time zone. Note that you can choose a custom date range for the data to be included in this report. 

To schedule a report:

1. Select account(s) and report type(s)
2. Under "Report Type," select "Scheduled"
3. Select your desired frequency: "Weekly" or "Monthly"
4. Under "Reporting Period," select your desired range (this option will change based on whether you chose a weekly or monthly report)
5. Select your report type format. (Note that XLSX is an Excel readable file.)
6. Name your report if you wish to customize the title
7. Choose the recipient's email address
8. Review your information on the next screen and press "Submit"
9. Your report will be emailed to the recipient's email on the first day of the month or every Monday.

One-time reports

Requesting a one-time report allows you to request data from a certain time period without the report being scheduled for regular delivery. 

To request a one time report:

1. Select account(s) and report type(s)
2. Under "Report Type," select "One Time"
3. Choose your Start and End date
4. Name your report if you wish to customize the title
5. Choose the recipient's email address
6. Review your information on the next screen and press "Submit"
7. Your report will be emailed to the recipient's email shortly

Do I need to reschedule my book reports?

Yes. If previous to Feb 2020, JSTOR scheduled a books report for you, you will need to reschedule it. To do so, see: Scheduled reports.

Are Books at JSTOR reports COUNTER compliant?

While Books at JSTOR reports generated from the same reporting system as our COUNTER 5 reports, they are not COUNTER compliant because the report types JSTOR offers are not mandated by the COUNTER code of practice.

Learn more about COUNTER compliant reporting options for books and how to interpret Key COUNTER Terms and Metrics.

Why don't my Books at JSTOR reports match my COUNTER reports?

Books at JSTOR reports are not COUNTER compliant, and therefore count things a bit differently to better align with the structures of our books acquisition models. Books at JSTOR reports exclude usage for items in books: table of contents, frontmatter, backmatter, etc., so usage in these reports will be lower than your COUNTER reports.