Skip to Main Content

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.

IPDES-ACRL dashboard updates

IPEDS-ACRL dashboard update notes, FY-2024 survey:

* Updated report and prompt default dates to FY-2024 (2023-07-01 through 2024-06-03)

* Counts for loans and items/portfolios with resource types of "Unknown" or "Undefined" are broken out in separate columns (for FY-2023 surveys, these were included in the "Media" counts)

* Updated item material types in "Equipment" filter (laptops, study rooms, etc.--loan and item counts for these should be excluded from IPEDS survey)

* Updated PDA/DDA/EBA filter (unpurchased PDA discovery records should be excluded from IPEDS electronic materials counts; standalone portfolios and portfolios in PDA discovery collections that have an associated PO line *are* included in the count):

  - Added new PDA discovery collections:
FIU Taylor & Francis EBS eBook Discovery Collection
Yankee Book Peddler DISCOVERY RECORD
Yankee Book Peddler DISCOVERY RECORD 2019
Cambridge H&SS EBA
De Gruyter EBA Package: All eBook Content EBA_EBKALL
Rialto Taylor and Francis EBA
JSTOR DDA
JSTOR eBooks: DDA Frontlist
JSTOR-GOBI DDA eBooks

  - For managed ebook collections, added purchase models to exclude from count:
Ebook Central Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles:
DDA Candidate
DDA Candidate Subscription

JSTOR Autoholdings
DDA Candidate Corpus
EBA Corpus

Please contact the FLVC Help Desk if you have any questions.

IPEDS-ACRL training and updates

IPEDS-ACRL Updates

Date Description Links
New Aug. 8, 2024 Updates to the FLVC IPEDS ACRL dashboard for fiscal year 2024 (from Aug. 8, 2024 Analytics open office) Video Recording (38 min.)
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.)
Oct. 25, 2023 Under the hood of the FLVC IPEDS ACRL Alma Analytics dashboard IPEDS ACRL dashboard
(Power Point)

Statewide Ebook Packages

With the exception of Ebook Central* , the following statewide ebook packages are managed in FLVC Network Alma, and are not included in Analytics reports run at the institution level (October 2023):

Package Alma collection NZ FY purchased title count Available for FCS Available for SUS
NetLibrary EBSCOhost ebooks FY-2004 22700 x x
Gale Gale ebooks; actually 427 titles, one is listed 3 times; some institutions have some titles tracked in IZ collections <FY-2018 429 x x
JSTOR JSTOR Books FY-2017 101 x  
Packt 2019 Managed at IZ level (Ebook Central Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles--See FIU Packt collection) FY-2022 288 x x
Rowan & Littlefield Managed at IZ level (Ebook Central Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles--search publisher Lexington Books, year 2019) FY-2021 201 x x
IGI Managed at IZ level (Ebook Central Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles--see SSC IGI collection) <FY-2018 109 x  

* As of October 2023, Alma Analytics reports run at the institution level will include titles in these ebook packages; The statewide Packt (2019), Rowan & Littlefield, and IGI ebook packages are managed by Ex Libris at the institution level as part of the "Ebook Central Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles" electronic collection.