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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
- 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:
- Log into the Community Collections Usage Dashboard with a personal account that has administrative permissions.
- Not an admin yet? See Accessing JSTOR Admin to get started.
- Use the Collections drop-down menu to configure which collections should appear in the report.
- By default, the report shows data for "All Time". You can uncheck this option and use the Start Date and End Date date pickers to specify a date range.
- Click Apply to view your report.
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.