diff --git a/dspace_statistics_api/indexer.py b/dspace_statistics_api/indexer.py
index 4787f9e..0e38f6b 100644
--- a/dspace_statistics_api/indexer.py
+++ b/dspace_statistics_api/indexer.py
@@ -28,59 +28,12 @@
 #
 # See: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Solr
 
-import re
-
 import psycopg2.extras
 import requests
 
 from .config import SOLR_SERVER
 from .database import DatabaseManager
-
-
-# Enumerate the cores in Solr to determine if statistics have been sharded into
-# yearly shards by DSpace's stats-util or not (for example: statistics-2018).
-def get_statistics_shards():
-    # Initialize an empty list for statistics core years
-    statistics_core_years = []
-
-    # URL for Solr status to check active cores
-    solr_query_params = {"action": "STATUS", "wt": "json"}
-    solr_url = SOLR_SERVER + "/admin/cores"
-    res = requests.get(solr_url, params=solr_query_params)
-
-    if res.status_code == requests.codes.ok:
-        data = res.json()
-
-        # Iterate over active cores from Solr's STATUS response (cores are in
-        # the status array of this response).
-        for core in data["status"]:
-            # Pattern to match, for example: statistics-2018
-            pattern = re.compile("^statistics-[0-9]{4}$")
-
-            if not pattern.match(core):
-                continue
-
-            # Append current core to list
-            statistics_core_years.append(core)
-
-    # Initialize a string to hold our shards (may end up being empty if the Solr
-    # core has not been processed by stats-util).
-    shards = str()
-
-    if len(statistics_core_years) > 0:
-        # Begin building a string of shards starting with the default one
-        shards = f"{SOLR_SERVER}/statistics"
-
-        for core in statistics_core_years:
-            # Create a comma-separated list of shards to pass to our Solr query
-            #
-            # See: https://wiki.apache.org/solr/DistributedSearch
-            shards += f",{SOLR_SERVER}/{core}"
-
-    # Return the string of shards, which may actually be empty. Solr doesn't
-    # seem to mind if the shards query parameter is empty and I haven't seen
-    # any negative performance impact so this should be fine.
-    return shards
+from .util import get_statistics_shards
 
 
 def index_views():
diff --git a/dspace_statistics_api/util.py b/dspace_statistics_api/util.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eda10ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dspace_statistics_api/util.py
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+# Enumerate the cores in Solr to determine if statistics have been sharded into
+# yearly shards by DSpace's stats-util or not (for example: statistics-2018).
+def get_statistics_shards():
+    from .config import SOLR_SERVER
+
+    import re
+    import requests
+
+    # Initialize an empty list for statistics core years
+    statistics_core_years = []
+
+    # URL for Solr status to check active cores
+    solr_query_params = {"action": "STATUS", "wt": "json"}
+    solr_url = SOLR_SERVER + "/admin/cores"
+    res = requests.get(solr_url, params=solr_query_params)
+
+    if res.status_code == requests.codes.ok:
+        data = res.json()
+
+        # Iterate over active cores from Solr's STATUS response (cores are in
+        # the status array of this response).
+        for core in data["status"]:
+            # Pattern to match, for example: statistics-2018
+            pattern = re.compile("^statistics-[0-9]{4}$")
+
+            if not pattern.match(core):
+                continue
+
+            # Append current core to list
+            statistics_core_years.append(core)
+
+    # Initialize a string to hold our shards (may end up being empty if the Solr
+    # core has not been processed by stats-util).
+    shards = str()
+
+    if len(statistics_core_years) > 0:
+        # Begin building a string of shards starting with the default one
+        shards = f"{SOLR_SERVER}/statistics"
+
+        for core in statistics_core_years:
+            # Create a comma-separated list of shards to pass to our Solr query
+            #
+            # See: https://wiki.apache.org/solr/DistributedSearch
+            shards += f",{SOLR_SERVER}/{core}"
+
+    # Return the string of shards, which may actually be empty. Solr doesn't
+    # seem to mind if the shards query parameter is empty and I haven't seen
+    # any negative performance impact so this should be fine.
+    return shards