Explore Insights Dashboard

Purpose

Provide a snapshot view to publishers of their subscriptions and their usage, including details related to the overall subscription.

Dashboard Notes

  • Filters on this dashboard have different use cases (see Usage Notes below)

  • The access filter will automatically filter the report to show subscriptions.

  • Data includes subscriptions that are active and whose expiration is within the next 12 months.

  • Report excludes items from the Explore Marketplace that had $0 transactions.

Definition of filters

 

Filter Name

Description

Usage Notes

Institution

Name of the institution (Mange Company name)

Using this filter will update dashboard tiles on Overview tab:

  • Top 5 Titles in Active Subscriptions (by User Count)

  • Unused Titles in Active Subscriptions

  • Unique Users by Subscription

  • Month-over-Month Unique Users by Subscription

  • Month-over-Month Page Views by Subscription

Subscription ID

Subscription VBID, Asset VBID (for single title sales), or Transaction ID (for Marketplace transactions)

Using this filter will update dashboard tiles on Overview tab:

  • Top 5 Titles in Active Subscriptions (by User Count)

  • Unused Titles in Active Subscriptions

  • Unique Users by Subscription

  • Month-over-Month Unique Users by Subscription

  • Month-over-Month Page Views by Subscription

Institution Country

County the institution is located (2-character code)

Using this filter will update all titles on the dashboard

Subscription Name

Name of the subscription within Explore

Filter to review renewal data for a specific subscription

Subscription Owner

Name of the company that owns the subscription (Manage Company Name)

Using this filter will update all titles on the dashboard

Asset Publisher

Publisher of the asset (Manage company name)

Using this filter will update all titles on the dashboard

 

Definition of tiles

🔵 Tiles will be numbered in the chart below. Numbering is based on navigation from top to bottom, left to right.

✅ Interactive Tiles are available with this dashboard.

  • For count tiles, click on the count. A pop-up will appear with the related data-set. This data-set can be downloaded.
  • For interactive data-set tiles, hover over the tile to reveal the three dots (Tile actions) to download all results related to that data-set.
 

Tile Name

Description

1

Active Subscriptions

Count of currently active subscriptions, with no renewal pending in the next 12 months.

2

Subscriptions with At-Risk Assets

Provides a sub-set count of active subscriptions, where at least 1 asset is holding an Asset Availability Status of “Limited Distribution” or “Out of Distribution”

3

Page Views by Country (Year-to-Date)

A world heatmap showing total pages viewed by country for the current year (to-date). Page views are calculated based on the institution's country of origin.

4

Page Views by Institution (Year-to-Date)

A pie chart showing page views by the institution for the current year (to-date).

5

Subscriptions Expiring in Next 12 Months

Count of active subscriptions that have an end date within the next 12 months.

📄 This is a cumulative count and includes the subscriptions in the next tile.
6

Subscriptions Expiring in Next 6 Months

Count of active subscriptions that have an end date within the next six months.

📄 This is a cumulative count and includes the subscriptions in the next tile.

7

Subscriptions Expiring in Next 3 Months

Count of active subscriptions that have an end date within the next three months.

8

Count of Subscriptions by Start Month

A bar chart showing the count of subscriptions by their start date for the past 12 months.

9

Top 5 Assets in Active Subscriptions (by User Count)

A list of the top 5 titles that are in active subscriptions based on the unique user count for the asset.

📄 The unique user count is recalculated as data flows in and could result in changes to the Top 5 over time.

10

Unused Assets in Active Subscriptions

A list of titles that are in active subscriptions that have not had any users or page views to-date.

📄 The unique user count and page views is recalculated as data flows in and could result in changes to unused assets throughout the duration of a subscription.

11

Unique Users by Subscription

A chart showing the count of users broken down by each subscription.

12

Month-over-Month Unique Users by Subscription

A chart showing the month-over-month count of users by each subscription for the past 12 months.

13

Month-over-Month Page Views by Subscription

A chart showing the month-over-month count of total page views by each subscription for the past 12 months.

 

Definition of fields

🔵 All fields on dashboard are included here, in alphabetical order.
 

Field Name

Description

Amount of Concurrent Users

Amount of concurrent users allowed by the subscription terms

Asset Author(s)

The name of the author(s) of the asset

Asset Edition

Edition of the asset

Asset Item Name

Name of the asset

Asset VBID

Manage VBID of the asset

Bookmarks (Overall)

Total number of bookmarks the end user(s) created

Engaged Students (Unique)

Number of unique users that have engaged with and activated an asset

Highlights (Overall)

Total number of highlights the end user(s) created

Institution

Name of the institution (Mange Company name)

Institution Country

County the institution is located (2-character code)

Notes (Overall)

Total number of notes the end user(s) created

Page Prints (Overall)

Total number of pages the end user(s) printed

Page Views (Overall)

Number of pages viewed (cumulatively) by the end user(s)

📄 For example, if an asset has 20 pages and each are viewed 5 times, the Page Views (Total) would reflect '100'.

Searches (Overall)

Total number of searches the end user(s) ran

Session Length (Seconds)

Total amount of time (in seconds) the user(s) spent in the subscription asset(s)

Subscription Availability

Provides actionable insights related to all subscriptions owned by the system user

Included values:

  • Renewal - # months - where Subscription Status is “Active” and the Subscription End Date is within the next 3, 6, or 12 months, a Renewal value (by expiring months) will appear.

📄 If at least one asset within the Subscription has an inventory status of “Limited Distribution” or “Out of Distribution” the Renewal will include “(Check Asset Availability)” (e.g., Renewal - 12 months (Check Asset Availability)) as an indicator that one or more assets will need to be excluded from the subscription upon renewal.

Subscription Cost

Agreed upon cost for the subscription

Subscription Cost Currency

Currency type for the Subscription Cost

Subscription End Date

Date the subscription ends

Subscription ID

Subscription VBID, Asset VBID (for single title sales), or Transaction ID (for Marketplace transactions)

Subscription Name

Name of the subscription within Explore

Subscription Owner

Name of the company that owns the subscription (Manage Company Name)

Subscription Start Date

Date the subscription begins

Subscription Status

Status for the subscription from the Explore application

Included values:

  • Active - represents a subscription whose start date is in the past, and its end date is in the future.

Unique Users

Number of unique users that engaged with items in the subscription

 

 

 

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