In July 2003 I started tracking URL clickthroughs through the University of Denver's Penrose Library online catalog. This Web page describes that project and provides updates. The project is described here: Brown, Christopher C. 2004. “Knowing Where They're Going:
Statistics for Online Government Document Access through the OPAC”. Online Information Review 28 (6), 396-409. DOI: 10.1108/14684520410570526 The project was presented here: “Knowing Where They’re Going: Counting Field 856 Click-throughs
in the OPAC.” Presentation
given at the 12th Annual Innovative Users Group, 3 & 5 April 2004,
Boston, MA. See KnowingGoing.ppt attachment (below). This contains the ColdFusion code. “Local Access Statistics for Federal Documents: Tracking Web Page and Online Catalog Usage.” Presentation given with Susan Xue at the Fall 2004 Depository Library Conference, 20 October 2004, Washington, DC. Published in the Proceedings of the 13th Annual Depository Library Conference, Oct. 17-20, 2004. “E-metrics for E-docs: Getting a Handle on Virtual Circulation
of Federal Documents.” Presentation given at the Five-State
Documents Conference 2006, 3 August 2006, Boulder, CO. PPT is here. For over five years I have been tracking these statistics. We do this using ColdFusion, but any number of technologies can be used to do this. The University of Denver, Penrose Library Web site is here. OPAC | OPAC, Encore edition To search my "virtual Andriot" project, go here. This project is officially called "Browse the Government Documents Stacks." It was designed in Microsoft Access and allows users to see a browseable virtual shelf list. It is an easy way to get to online documents. Other libraries that I know of that are also tracking statistics for government documents clickthroughs include:
The attachments below contain current statistics from the University of Denver's clickthrough of government documents. Beginning in 2005 we expanded the URL clickthrough project to encompass freely available Internet resources included in our OPAC. This was written up in the following: Brown, Christopher C. and Elizabeth S. Meagher. 2008. “Cataloging Free E-Resources: Is It Worth the Investment?” Interlending & Document Supply 36 (3), 135-141. DOI: 10.1108/02641610810897845 Christopher C. Brown |    |
