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Usage statistics for collection managementThe work of JUSPAngela Conyers
Evidence Base, Birmingham City University [email protected]
You librarians always love counting
Why count?
Usage statistics provide essential evidence:• to show how e-resources
are being used• to look at trends over time• to inform
renewal/cancellation decisions
• to demonstrate value for money
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What does it all mean?
How to use the figures to analyse usage and show value for money
The Journal Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP)
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@JUSPSTATS
JUSP – Journal Usage Statistics Portal
Background and aims
• Supports UK academic libraries by providing a single point of access to e-journal usage data
• Assists management of e-journals collections, evaluation and decision-making
• Provides statistics to
ensure the best deals for the academic community
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Libraries in JUSP
• 150 UK libraries in JUSP
• All UK higher education institutions and research councils are welcome to participate
• http://jusp.mimas.ac.uk/participants.html
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Publishers and intermediaries in JUSP• American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) • American Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS) • American Chemical Society (ACS)• American Diabetes Association (ADA) • American Institute of Physics (AIP) • Annual Reviews • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) • American Society of Agronomy (ASA) • Berg Publishers • BioOne • BRILL • British Medical Journal Publishing Group (BMJ) • Cambridge University Press (CUP) • Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) • Duke University Press • Edinburgh University Press (EUP) • Elsevier • Emerald • European Respiratory Society • Future Medicine Ltd • Geological Society of America • IEEE• IOP Publishing• IOS Press
• Irish Newspaper Archive • JSAD - Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs • JSTOR • Liverpool University Press (LUP) • Nature Publishing Group (NPG) • Oxford University Press (OUP) • Project MUSE • Royal College of Psychiatrists • Royal Society • Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) • Royal Society of Medicine • SAGE • Society for General Microbiology • Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) • Springer• Taylor & Francis • Wiley-Blackwell
3 intermediaries• Ebsco EJS• Publishing Technology (ingentaconnect)• Swets
What data are we collecting?
COUNTER usage reportsJR1 • Journal Report 1:
Number of Successful Full-Text Article Requests by Month and Journal
JR1a• Journal Report 1a:
Number of Successful Full-Text Article Requests from an Archive by Month and Journal
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How do we collect data?
• Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI)
• M2M way of gathering statistics
• Replaces the user-mediated collection of usage reports
• SUSHI server to gather data from JUSP
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What reports do we offer?
Some examples:
• Monthly reports of usage
• Compare usage of different publishers
• Titles with the highest use
• Trends over time
Monthly reports of usage
Compare usage of different publishers
Titles with the highest use- one publisher
Titles with the highest use-all publishers
Trends over time
Community engagement• Community resource
responding to what people want
• Working closely with libraries to understand how JUSP is being used and how it can help decision-making
• Information sharing and training events
• Developing new reports and features from user feedback
• Quick response rates encourage active user participation
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Next steps
More content?
• E-books
• Databases
More of interest for the FE library community?
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