Librarian Resources
Usage Reports
Librarians and information managers who are not the Administrator for their institute and receive ScienceDirect usage reports every month via the Usage Reporting website should change their username and password to keep access to this service.
How do I ensure continued access to Usage Reports?
Please go to the Admin Tool Info site.
A description of the available reports can be found in the Report Description.
Click here for more information about usage reporting of transactional access to non-subscribed articles.
A range of client-confidential reports are provided showing:
- Both full-text article and article summary (abstracts) requests
- Reports split out by individually subscribed institutes or groups
- All reports, exportable in various formats for further offline analysis in e.g. Excel or Access
- All COUNTER required reports and more
- Multi-month trend reports showing patterns of usage over time
Your individual reports are accessible on a secure Usage Reporting web site, with your own username and password. To see a demonstration, visit the website and login with username: demo and password: demo.
If you have any questions regarding usage reports please contact your Regional Sales Office.
Guides for navigating ScienceDirect customer usage reports:
- Quick Reference Guide PDF version
- Frequently asked questions
What to count and what not to count?
How are the usage logs cleaned and filtered before reporting takes place? The ScienceDirect White Paper on WebServer Usage Reporting will tell you the story.
News Archive
- COUNTER Code of Practice adopted by Elsevier - Elsevier has signed a declaration of compliance for ScienceDirect with the international COUNTER Code of Practice. Press Release 24 October 2003.
- New Customer Usage Reporting System – The new Customer Usage Reporting has gone live. For further details, read the fact sheet here February 2003.
- ICOLC Guideline Compliant – Elsevier endorses new ICOLC guidelines for measuring e-journal usage. Press Release 25 January 2002.
Disclaimer
All information and reports information and reports made available at the ScienceDirect® Customer Usage Reporting web site have been produced with utmost care and should provide you with the latest figures for the collection of journals and databases you are entitled to in the most recent report month. Users, however, may access non-subscribed journal articles through credit card or other transactional payments, which will cause differences in the number of journals listed in the usage reports and those listed in your contract with Elsevier.