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Alma Analytics Resource Guide

This guide covers how to use the Alma Analytics platform to produce robust reports. Included are instructions on accessing the Oracle-based service as well as how to use its menu driven service to build custom reports.

Local params

Default Local Params and Holdings Local Params

Below are the default setting for Local Params (Bibliographic Details) and Holdings Local Params (Holdings Details) for Analytics.  Local Params can be changed for your institution, in which case you will have to be aware of the change locally, unfortunately the labels always remain the same no matter which tag has been assigned to that particular Param.

Param changes are performed by ExLibris and can be requested by sending in a Help Desk case.  Allow at least a week for the request to be submitted and the indexing to complete.

Note: The original spec from CAWG included only some subfields for some of the MARC fields, but ExLibris indicates that for Local Params it is all or nothing, so only the MARC tag is listed.

Bibliographic local params

Analytics dimension Analytics column MARC Tag Description
Bibliographic Details Local Param 01 998 Aleph System Number (001)
Bibliographic Details Local Param 02 926 Aleph STA
Bibliographic Details Local Param 03 996 Aleph TKR
Bibliographic Details Local Param 04 931 Local Added Entry--Meeting Name
Bibliographic Details Local Param 05 932 Local Added Entry--Corporate Name
Bibliographic Details Local Param 06 959 Local Series Added Entry--Uniform Title
Bibliographic Details Local Param 07 501 With Note
Bibliographic Details Local Param 08 533 Reproduction Note
Bibliographic Details Local Param 09 440 Series (440 field)
Bibliographic Details Local Param 10 939 Local Donor Corporate Name
Bibliographic Details Local Param 11 937  
Bibliographic Details Local Param 12 020 Bibliographic ID (a); ISBN (a, z); ISBN Valid (a)
Bibliographic Details Local Param 13 022 ISSN (a, l); ISSN Valid (a)
Bibliographic Details Local Param 14 240 Title (Filing) (a, c, p); Uniform Title (subfields not specified)
Bibliographic Details Local Param 15 300  
Bibliographic Details Local Param 16 338  
Bibliographic Details Local Param 17 490 Series Statement (a, v, x)
Bibliographic Details Local Param 18 502  
Bibliographic Details Local Param 19 590 Local Note (a, 5)
Bibliographic Details Local Param 20 600 Subjects (Names) (a, b, c, d, e, l, t, u)
Bibliographic Details Local Param 21 610 Subjects (Names) (a, b, c, d, e, l, n, t, u)
Bibliographic Details Local Param 22 611 Subjects (Names) (a, b, c, d, e, j, l, n, q, t, u)
Bibliographic Details Local Param 23 650  
Bibliographic Details Local Param 24 690  
Bibliographic Details Local Param 25 773  
Bibliographic Details Local Param 26 830 Series (a, n, p, v)
Bibliographic Details Local Param 27 856 Electronic location and address (all); Uniform Resource Identifier (u)
Bibliographic Details Local Param 28 Open for Local use  
Bibliographic Details Local Param 29 Open for Local use  
Bibliographic Details Local Param 30 Open for Network use

Holding local params

Analytics dimension Analytics column MARC Tag Description
Holdings Details Holding Local Param 01 926 Aleph STA
Holdings Details Holding Local Param 02 996 Aleph TKR
Holdings Details Holding Local Param 03 583 Action Note (Hol)
Holdings Details Holding Local Param 04 856 Electronic Location and Access (Hol)
Holdings Details Holding Local Param 05 Open for Local Use  
Holdings Details Holding Local Param 06 853 Captions and Pattern
Holdings Details Holding Local Param 07 866 Textual Holdings [summary holding statement]
Holdings Details Holding Local Param 08 Open for Local use  
Holdings Details Holding Local Param 09 Open for Local use  
Holdings Details Holding Local Param 10 Open for Network use