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Usage Reports for Community Collections

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What can I find in the Community Collections Usage Dashboard?

The Community Collections Usage Dashboard is a self-service dashboard that enables users with JSTOR administrator permissions to track and visualize interest in and access of your institution's collections.

Not an admin yet? See Accessing JSTOR Admin to get started.

The following information and data visualizations are available in the dashboard:

  • Item requests by collection
    • Dates of items accessed from all collections or by a specific collection
    • Available date ranges are past 30 days, 90 days, 6 months, 12 months, or all time
  • Top items requested
  • Top countries requesting access
  • Top institutions requesting access
  • Usage by access type from:
    • other JSTOR institutions
    • your institution
    • "no institution" for publicly-available collections

Additionally, you'll also find counts for:

  • Total requests
  • Items accessed
  • Countries accessing collection content
  • Institution landing page views

Accessing the dashboard

To access the dashboard:

  1. Log into the Community Collections Usage Dashboard with a personal account that has administrative permissions.
  2. Use the Collections and/or Date Range drop-down menu(s) to configure your report.
  3. Click the Download button to download a PDF of your collections reporting.

Note: The Date Range drop-down menu offers pre-defined ranges of the past 30 days, 90 days (default), 6 months, 12 months, or All Time. At this time, these are the only selectable date ranges.

Who can create reports from the collection dashboard?

Access to usage reporting for Community Collections is available for participating institutional account admins. This means you must be granted administrative permissions to view, create, and download this reporting.

Not an admin yet? See Accessing JSTOR Admin to get started.

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