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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.

Training Videos

Analytics Training Videos

Before Go-Live

Event/Presenter/Date Description Links
Alma Analytics and Reports Delivery
(FLVC)
May 28, 2021

Alma Analytics vs. Alma Search
Using Design Analytics & Analytics Administrator to create reports
Overview of folders in Alma Analytics
Creation of Analytic Objects
Review of options on how to provide reports

Video Recording
(1hr 15min)

Slides

Alma Analytics:
Basics of Finding/Modifying Reports

(FLVC)
June 11, 2021

How existing reports are stored in Alma Analytics
Finding an existing report that might meet your needs
How to modify an existing report
Basics of creating a new report

Recording
(1hr 5min)

Slides

After Go-Live

Event/Presenter/Date Description Links
Fall Workshop - Alma Analytics
(Ex Libris)
October 5, 2021
 

Alma Analytics
--Out of the Box Reports
--Basics of Creating Your Own Reports
--Reports Created by FLVC

Working with Analytics in Alma
--Creating Sets from Analytics
--Creating Analytic Objects
--Q&A

Video Recording
Part 1
(1hr 35min)

Video Recording
Part 2
(1hr 15min)

Presentation

Analytics open office

Date Description Links
April 29, 2022
 

Electronic resources cost-per-use

PO lines for electronic resources on print records

Titles subject area--some data refreshed monthly not daily

Video Recording
(36 min)

April 6, 2023

Parsing the results of an Analytics report of NZ OCLC records

using OpenRefine

Video Recording (56 min)

 

July 13, 2023 Analytics open office: create a report of PO lines with no expenditures for a date range  Video Recording (58 min)
Sep. 7, 2023 Adding an Analytics report as an Alma widget Video Recording (12 min; 56 min total)
Oct. 5, 2023 Counts and title lists for shared statewide eresources that are managed in Alma Network and made discoverable via "available for" groups Video Recording (1 hour 1 min.)

 

Analytics new interface (PowerPoint)

Date Description Links
August 3, 2023
 

Covers the most significant changes to the Analytics interface within Alma as of the August 7 2023 Alma release

New Alma Analytics Interface
(Power Point)

 

IPEDS ACRL Analytics dashboard

Date Description Links
Oct. 25, 2023
 

Under the hood of the FLVC IPEDS ACRL Alma Analytics dashboard

IPEDS ACRL dashboard
(Power Point)

Nov. 16, 2023 Accessing the IPEDS ACRL dashboard from Alma; New datasets for FLVC contributions, COUNTER usage, statewide shared resources counts (from Nov. 16, 2023 FLVC Analytics open office) Video Recording (26 min.)