New Group Selection in the On Demand Comparison Report And New On Demand Analytics Report
This year, as part of AGUA Development Phase 7, in addition to the New Fields Available in the WEST All Archived Titles Report and the development to Download AGUA Reports More Easily, the AGUA Development Team completed an enhancement to enable libraries to compare against the holdings of pre-defined groups and generate reports without an input file! You can read more about AGUA Development (what it is, why we do it, and what goes into it) in our Brief Introduction to AGUA Development.
This development both adds a new “group” selection to the On Demand Comparison Report, and adds an entirely new On Demand Analytics Report tool which members can use to create reports without first providing an input file.
On Demand Analytics Report
The On Demand Analytics Report allows users to generate an “on demand” analytics report by drawing from AGUA’s archived and unarchived titles data sets. The output reports may be used to make local decisions about duplicates and to identify titles that have not yet been retained for WEST or another shared print program.
Group Scoping
As mentioned above, both the Comparison reports and Analytics Reports can now be scoped by “group”, meaning that users will only see holdings for other institutions which are members of the selected group. Groups can be combined using the OR or AND buttons to see respectively either the holdings of multiple groups or only the holdings of institutions which are members of all selected groups.
More information about group scoping and the On Demand Analytics Report tool can be found in the updated AGUA User Manual.
We encourage AGUA users to explore these new tools and get to know the new On Demand Analytics Report and how it might be of use to your library. In order to support your exploration we’ve recorded two new video demonstrations:
- Using the Group Selection Feature of the On Demand Comparison Report
- Using the On Demand Analytics Report
We hope that these new improvements help to enhance the process of working with these reports, and, as always, we would love to hear from you about this new update! If you have comments or feedback about this new update, or question please email the WEST Project Team.