One of the benefits that Digital Scholarship provides to our journal partners is annual reports. These reports provide statistics for partners that span the most recent fiscal year and help to identify trends over time.

In earlier days, these reports were compiled in a manual and unstructured way, and shared with partners as PDF documents. Over the past two years, staff began to collect data in a structured format (CSV/Google Sheets), but the final reports continued to be shared as PDFs.

That is, however, until this year! Computational Research Instruction Librarian Dan Woulfin volunteered to help move the reporting system into something even more automated. Staff, including student workers, continue to collect data and store it in CSV format, but now that data is used to programmatically generate reports as HTML documents. This is done using Quarto, a typesetting and publishing system that weaves together text, markup language, and executable code to produce documents, presentations, websites, and other outputs. The reports were generated using a parameterized method, meaning that a script used a template to generate multiple reports.

This change allows for users to better interact with data within each report and also means that annual reports are in a structured, accessible format (HTML) that is easier for screenwriters to interpret.

We hope that you enjoy reading our compiled annual report and look forward to sharing future reports with our partners in this format.

You can read the report here: FY2024 Journals Program Report (HTML document; download from Google Drive and open from your downloads folder to view).