About Usage Reports

You can retrieve ProQuest usage reports that provide account-specific details such as usage summaries by account, site/user, search type, time or database. This information lets you see usage patterns, popular searching mechanisms and databases. You can use this information to make sure that your ProQuest account meets the needs of your users—providing the right databases, supplying users with the correct access, and that the default settings are configured properly.

Usage Report Data

Here is an explanation of how ProQUest calculates the values displayed on usage reports:

Deliveries

The document count is incremented at the start of document delivery from the ProQuest electronic vault.

If a file is requested multiple times within a specific time frame (10 seconds for html, and 30 seconds for pdf files), the duplicate requests are not counted.

Searches

Search by Word
The search count is incremented each time Search is clicked. If you click the button again to retrieve the next set of results, the count is not incremented.
Search by Publication
The search count is incremented each time Search is clicked on the Publication Search page. When you browse an issue of a journal or view a document, the search count is not incremented.
Search by Topic
The search count is incremented every time a search is performed that returns articles. Searching and navigating within the topic tree does not increment the search count.

Common Tasks

For complete information, see the Electronic Usage Reports FAQ in the Training Resources Center (http://www.proquest.com/go/ladguide).

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