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Beyond Google Analytics: Using The ‘Toolkit For The Impact Of Digitised Scholarly Resources’ To Embed Metrics And Gauge Use Of Regional Digital Collections, Virginia A. Dressler, Elizabeth Richardson
Beyond Google Analytics: Using The ‘Toolkit For The Impact Of Digitised Scholarly Resources’ To Embed Metrics And Gauge Use Of Regional Digital Collections, Virginia A. Dressler, Elizabeth Richardson
Virginia A Dressler
Recently, Kent State University Libraries has been expanding digital collections, in particular highlighting content from the regional library collections. As the digital collections continue to grow, our team wanted to find a way to apply defined metrics to ascertain the use of digital resources through qualitative and quantitative methods, in a more extensive and comprehensive method than Google Analytics. This paper will present the construction of metrics to analyze the use (and reuse) of the digital collections with a number of open-source tools.