Platform Master Report (PR)

Definition

Platform Reports provide a summary of activity on a given platform to support the evaluation of platforms and to provide high-level statistical data to support surveys and reporting to funders.

Host_types required to provide PR report

All Host_Types:

A&I Database (Abstracting & Indexing Database) 

Aggregated Full Content 

Data Repository

Discovery Service

eBook

eBook Collection 

eJournal 

Full Content Database 

Multimedia 

Multimedia Collection

Repository 

Scholarly Collaboration Network

Data_Types

All applicable 

Metric_Types

All applicable

Header of PR report (explanation)

Example of PR report

Standard views

PR report only has one standard view - Platform Usage - PR_P1, which provides platform usage summarized by Metric_Type. 

PR_P1

Definition

Platform-level usage summarized by Metric_Type.

Host_types required to provide PR_P1 report

All Host_Types:

A&I Database (Abstracting & Indexing Database) 

Aggregated Full Content

Data Repository

Discovery Service

eBook

eBook Collection

eJournal

Full Content Database

Multimedia

Multimedia Collection

Repository

Scholarly Collaboration Network

Data_Types

All applicable

Metric_Types

Total_Item_Requests

Unique_Item_Requests

Unique_Title_Requests

Searches_Platform

Example of PR_P1 report

Summary table

This table summarizes the attributes and metrics of the respective reports. Mandatory Metrics and Host_Types are highlighted in bold. 

Sample reports