Kahoot.it, Google Scholar, and Google Analytics

So I had the pleasure during this insane week to listen to Bram Luyten present on Open Repository usage statistics.

So Bram is with Atmire Open Repository, we use DSpace which Mike actually does some of the behind the scene for, and we have a big summer move planned to a new platform of DSpace.

Well, not sure what I would get out of this, but I ended up getting a really good tool for quizzes to use next year for GamePlan sessions and two other nuggets of knowledge.

1. Next year I want to try and use the quiz tool called Kahoot!, I think it would be a great evaluation tool to use at the end of a library instruction session.


2. If you have a specific item in your repository, say for us in the Academic Commons we have a number of articles from a law journal. So if you take the DSpace repository handle URL, you should be able to search just for that in Google Scholar to see if it is getting crawled.

Well, I tried this URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10177/5655, and it brought back nothing.

but I know this journal is being indexed by Google Scholar so I tried an article title search:



So this is something that I learned in the presentation, Google promises companies like HeinOnline that they will get top ranking for the metadata, and that is where the link goes to. If you choose the Versions option in the bottom corner, my newest find you can see Willamette's version listed, but the link to the item is:

https://libmedia.willamette.edu/ds-api/bitstream/bea34dab-066b-4307-a297-3e9400153acb/13%20WSLJ%20no.%202%20spring%202016%20Stirparo.pdf

So it's indexing the APIs, but not the permanent citation URL? That seems a bit backward, I'm going to add it to our systems meeting agenda on Monday morning.

3. In Google Analytics, by using the Full Referrer as a secondary dimension, I can get a good idea of the actual page where some is coming to our links from. I knew this before, but just have not had much use for it, if you do use if for a repository you might be able to tell an author as to who is linking to his/her works. So over the last week, here is where most of the people came to the library from. So one interesting tally I can see is 77 times that people chose the Databases A-Z link from the top menu in Primo. So definitely getting some folks that way.