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Book Analytics Service
  • 📚Dashboard overview
    • Book Analytics Service
    • How the Dashboard works
    • Dashboard data sources
    • How to use your Dashboard
    • More information and contact us
      • Glossary
      • License
      • Contributing Guide
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  • đź”­Workflows & Telescopes
    • Workflow Schedule
    • Data Telescopes
      • Google Analytics Universal
      • Google Books
      • IRUS Fulcrum
      • IRUS OAPEN
      • JSTOR
      • UCL Discovery
      • UCL Sales
    • Metadata Telescopes
      • OAPEN Metadata
      • ONIX
      • Thoth
    • ONIX Workflow
      • Data Partners
      • Schemas
      • Crossref Metadata
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  • What are the Dashboard’s data sources?
  • Where the Dashboard gets title metadata from
  • Where the Dashboard gets usage data from
  • Public access data sources - no access permission required
  • Crossref metadata
  • OAPEN metadata
  • Thoth
  • UCL Discovery
  • Private access data sources - access permission required
  • Google Analytics Universal
  • Google Books
  • JSTOR
  • ONIX-FTP feed from publishers
  • Private access data sources - no additional access permission required
  • IRUS Fulcrum
  • IRUS OAPEN
  1. Dashboard overview

Dashboard data sources

What are the Dashboard’s data sources?

To see the data sources for a specific Dashboard, click on About page on the Dashboard, and consult the list at Data Sources. The only obligatory data source is for the ONIX feed for each book title; each publisher then chooses the other data sources they wish to include on their Dashboard.

The standard data sources currently available to be included in the Dashboard are detailed in the tables below. Other data sources and variables may be supported as an extra add-on service.

Where the Dashboard gets title metadata from

Data source
Status
Access

Crossref metadata

Current

Public

OAPEN metadata

Current

Public

ONIX-FTP feed from publishers

Current

Private

Thoth

Current

Public

Where the Dashboard gets usage data from

Data source
Status
Access
COUNTER-conformant?
Time aggregation

Google Analytics Universal

Not current

Private

No

Monthly

Google Books

Current

Private

No

Monthly

IRUS Fulcrum

Current

Private

Yes

Monthly

IRUS OAPEN

Current

Private

Yes

Monthly

JSTOR

Current

Private

Yes

Monthly

UCL Discovery

Current

Public

No

Monthly

Mentions and page views

Data source
Field for Page Views

Google Analytics Universal

[page_views]

Book views and downloads

Data source
Field for Book Views
Field for Book Downloads

Google Analytics Universal

Not available

Yes (with custom dimensions)

Google Books

[BV_with_Pages_Viewed]

[qty]

IRUS Fulcrum

Not available

[total_item_requests]

IRUS OAPEN

Not available

[title_requests] and [total_item_requests]

UCL Discovery

Not available

[total_downloads]

Chapter downloads

Data source
Field for Chapter Downloads

JSTOR

[total_item_requests]

Public access data sources - no access permission required

The public access data sources are those where data is made publicly available by the data source. No additional access permission is required from Dashboard partners for the Dashboard to obtain the following data sources if a partner wishes for them to be included on their dashboard/s.

Crossref metadata

OAPEN metadata

OAPEN enables libraries and aggregators to use the metadata of all available titles in the OAPEN Library. The OAPEN metadata is available in different data formats - BAS harvests the data in XML format and converts it into ONIX format for the OAPEN platform.

Thoth

UCL Discovery

University College London (UCL) is an eBook publisher, and partner in the BAS project. UCL Discovery is UCL's open access repository, showcasing and providing access to the full texts of UCL research publications. BAS can include UCL Discovery book usage data.

Private access data sources - access permission required

Google Analytics Universal

Google Analytics Universal monitors and records web traffic for specific websites. If a Dashboard partner had configured Google Analytics on their publisher website, the Google Analytics data can be used to find out which countries and territories website visitors are from.

Google Books

JSTOR

ONIX-FTP feed from publishers

Private access data sources - no additional access permission required

IRUS Fulcrum

IRUS OAPEN

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Crossref is a not-for-profit membership organisation, and an official Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Registration Agency of the International DOI Foundation. The organisation makes metadata available for all DOIs registered with . BAS can use Crossref metadata to match ISBNs obtained from a publisher's ONIX feed to DOIs.

Thoth is a free, open metadata service that publishers can use as a metadata storage solution. Thoth can provide metadata in a number of formats. BAS uses the to download metadata for publishers in ONIX format.

The Google Books Partner program hosts eBooks, including some free open access eBooks. eBook publishers can then download usage reports from . BAS uses data from the Google Play sales transaction report and the Google Books Traffic Report.

is a digital library offering over 7,000 open access eBooks. Publisher usage reports from JSTOR offer details about the use (views and downloads) of eBooks by institution, and country.

is a standard that book publishers use to share information about the books that they have published. BAS dashboard partners that have ONIX feeds are given credentials and access to their own upload folder on the Mellon SFTP server. Each publisher uploads their ONIX feed to their upload folder on a weekly, fortnightly, or monthly basis. The BAS data workflow downloads the ONIX data, transforms it (with the ONIX parser Java command line tool) and then loads it into BigQuery for further processing.

IRUS provides COUNTER standard access reports for eBooks hosted on the Fulcrum platform. is a “community-developed, open source platform for digital scholarship” which provides “users the ability to read books with associated digital enhancements, such as: 3-D models, embedded audio, video, and databases; zoomable online images, and interactive media”.

IRUS provides COUNTER standard access reports for eBooks hosted on the . OAPEN "promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication". Almost all eBooks on OAPEN are provided as a PDF file for the whole book. The reports from IRUS show access figures for each month, and the location (IP address) of the access. Within the OAPEN Google Cloud project (located in Europe), IP addresses are replaced with geographical information (city and country). This means that IP addresses are not stored within BAS data, and only de-identified geographical information is transferred to BAS.

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Crossref
Thoth export API
Google Books
JSTOR
ONIX
Fulcrum
OAPEN library and platform