Deep Log Study
Deep Log Analysis Study
JISC funding has been awarded to CIBER at UCL to undertake the deep log analysis (DLA) study - Visit the CIBER DLA study website to stay up to date with what is happening and to find out more information.
Current Reports Available
- Findings from the first user survey - over 22,000 responses by UK HE students and teaching staff
- Analysis of the free text fields from the first user survey - what do students think are the advantages of e-books?
What is Deep Log Analysis?
Deep Log Analysis (DLA) takes the raw server logs from MyiLibrary and Wolters Kluwer. The logs have no statistical filters on them, they are the raw logs and they include a lot of very interesting information on the information seeking behaviour of users -how do they navigate? how long they spend in an e-book? what do they do?…their digital fingerprint through the books and platforms. The data is then related to user characteristics and institutional profiles and patterns arising from all this information are identified. To find out why the patterns exist questionnaires and interviews are carried out with staff and students in institutions and a real understanding of user behaviour is developed.
Why the DLA study?
- DLA is action research, it allows us to map the virtual user in real time so we can see the impacts very quickly and make changes according to the data - if we see that the users are not using the e-books we can find out why and make appropriate changes.
- This study is effectively a national laboratory producing data on thousands of users that will allow us to base future decisions on real data, on a real understanding of what our users needs are.
- DLA is a great opportunity to identify best practice in terms of promotion, discovery, access models - institutions can experiment themselves with different promotional methods and watch the effects.
- DLA provides an important opportunity to get the business, licensing and pedagogic models for e-books right from the very start, rather than seek to review and correct with the benefit of hindsight.
- DLA will allow us to really connect with the users as knowledge of what they are doing, who they are, how they use e-books and what they want will improve the services provided to them.
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