Describe the issue or problem
Currently statistics are working fine within our OJS. We would like them to be in our integrated systems with the rest of our library system stats. Discussing this with other local OJS-running-institutions suggests that this is a common desire.
Ideally the stats would be transferred in an automated / semi-automated way into either ExLibris’s ALMA LMS (Library Management System) or into Microsoft’s Power BI cloud business intelligence.platform.
Has anyone done this or know of a useful plugin that lets us do this?
I’m aware of the COUNTER plugin and we’re already using that for other vendors’ statistics. COUNTER assumes a vendor-library relationship and automation using SUSHI requires elaborate registration etc.
What application are you using?
3.3.0.14 right now, upgrade in works.
Hi @Stuart_Yeates,
If you’re talking about readership statistics that are informed by scholarly communication, then COUNTER/SUSHI is the way to go.
If you’re interested in readership statistics and don’t care especially about COUNTER policies – e.g. debouncing repeat viewers – then a simple integration with an external stats tool might be possible, as we do with Matomo.
If you’d like to explore other kinds of statistics, e.g. time to decision, submission trends, etc., then I’d recommend exploring Metabase (though you can use Power BI in the same way). Metabase is open source. I’ve recently been exploring some tools to permit easy use of Metabase for individual journals when OJS is installed multi-journal. I should be putting out a video about this in the near future.
Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team
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Thank you for your comprehensive answer Alec.
Ngā mihi
stuart