Given the current economic climate and likelihood of tightening funding, understanding the usage of e-resources is becoming increasingly important as it allows an institution to understand which resources they need to keep subscribing to, and those which they may wish to unsubscribe from - potentially resulting in real-world cost savings.

Gathering e-resource usage statistics using the RAPTOR toolkit

             Session Information         
Workshop Title

Gathering e-resource usage statistics using the RAPTOR toolkit

Abstract

Given the current economic climate and likelihood of tightening funding, understanding the usage of e-resources is becoming increasingly important as it allows an institution to understand which resources they need to keep subscribing to, and those which they may wish to unsubscribe from - potentially resulting in real-world cost savings.

Project/Service Name

Retrieval, Analysis, and Presentation Toolkit for usage of Online Resources (RAPTOR)

Institution

University of Cardiff

Website url

http://iam.cf.ac.uk/trac/RAPTOR

Workshop facilitator(s)
  • Rhys Smith, Engineering Consultant: Identity & Access Management, University of Cardiff  
  • Philip Smart, Engineering Consultant: Identity & Access Management, University of Cardiff

Take away

Delegates will learn how the RAPTOR software toolkit can be used for reporting e- resource usage statistics (from Shibboleth IdPs and EZProxy) in a user-friendly manner suitable for non-technical staff.

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