Alma Analytics: Cost per Use - calculate use on all platforms
When using Alma Analytics for cost per use reports, only use from the chosen COUNTER Platform are calculated. In part, this is because in Electronic Portfolio Editor, only one COUNTER Platform may be chosen. This is a problem for our Ovid Journal collections as Ovid records use across three platforms. We would like all use to be calculated in Alma Analytic Cost per Use reports, whether this be solved by allowing us to choose multiple platforms in Alma or have Alma Analytics calculate all use, not just the COUNTER Platform chosen in Alma.
Stew MacLehose
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Lauren Gibbs
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This would also be useful for us. We have multiple vendors where the same title for the same time period in the same report has usage on multiple platforms. Since there is only one field for the Counter platform setting at the collection and portfolio level, we cannot accurately calculate cost per use for these vendors. In order to accurately account for all usage of that title for that month and report, we would need at least 3 fields for Counter platform at both the collection and portfolio level, or another way to work multiple platforms into the same cost per use report. I recently discussed this over email with Yoel Kortick and he suggested I share this via idea exchange, then I saw it was already suggested, so I am adding my thoughts here.