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.
Reports may be available as early as the third calendar day of the month.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Note: Once you have clicked on a report in the 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.
For more information, refer to the product glossaries listed at the top of the Help window.
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.
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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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See Work with FirstSearch COUNTER 5 reports for more information.