Journal Usage Statistics Portal(JUSP)

Adding value and assessing impact through a collaborative approach to

service development and delivery

Angela Conyers –Evidence BasePaul Harwood –JISC Collections

@JUSPSTATS

This paper was first presented at Online Information 2011

A collaborative project

National initiative for licensing online journals on behalf of the higher and further education and research communities in the UK

SHEDL aims through collaboration and combined purchasing power to achieve a shared digital library in Scotland

WHELF's mission is to promote library and information services co-operation and to encourage the exchange of ideas among University and Higher Education libraries in Wales

Metrics and the scholarly journal

• The Impact Factor continues to play a key role in evaluating the quality of a journal

• However, the arrival of online journals and the ability to count usage has added a new dimension to the evaluation process

• Work is still in progress regarding a possible Usage Factor which would be based on usage data analysis

Usage data in publisher pricing models

• The majority of negotiations between publishers and libraries involves some discussion about usage data

• Some publishers have begun to use usage as the sole or key component in their pricing model (AAAS, ACS)

• When this happens, both parties need to ensure they are working with the same data. Project COUNTER has helped and JUSP is playing its part too

Lies, damn lies and statistics

What are all these usage figures telling us?

•Star titles– very high usage •Usage of non-subscribed titles within a Big Deal•Zero use titles

COUNTER JR1 reports

• Getting access to individual publisher sites is difficult and time-consuming

• Importance of analysis not just collecting:• To show value for money• To decide on renewal/cancellation

• Single point of access to usage data from multiple publishers

• No need to visit separate publisher sites to download usage statistics

• Usage comparison across publishers and years

• Establishing value for money

JUSP

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• 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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• 125 libraries in JUSP

• All UK higher education institutions and research councils are welcome to participate (160+)

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15 publishers• American Association for the

Advancement of Science (AAAS)• American Institute of Physics (AIP)• Annual Reviews• British Medical Journal Publishing

Group (BMJ)• Edinburgh University Press (EUP)• Elsevier• Emerald/Emerald Insight• Institute of Physics (IOP)• Nature Publishing Group• Oxford University Press• Project MUSE• Royal Society of Chemistry• SAGE• Springer• Wiley-Blackwell

3 intermediaries• Ebsco EJS• Publishing Technology

(ingentaconnect)• Swets

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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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Some other JUSP reports

• Titles with the highest use from one publisher or all publishers in JUSP

• Titles in various usage ranges, from nil and low to very high

• Search facility – title or ISSN or keyword• Trends over time (2009- )

JUSP enhancements

• Usage patterns of subscribed or core titles

• Identification of titles in the deal or collection within the JR1 report

• Adding more publishers

•Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI)

•M2M way of gathering statistics

•Replaces the user-mediated collection of usage reports

•12 JUSP SUSHI clients available

•SUSHI server to gather data from JUSP

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JUSP SUSHI server

• PHP-based system so libraries can download data directly from JUSP

• Plans at advanced stage to set up SUSHI servers so that libraries using UStat (ExLibris) can import directly from JUSP to UStat

• Gathering feedback and monitoring use

• Surveys

• Visits

• Ongoing dialogue

• Providing support and guidance to the community

• Knowledge sharing

• SUSHI client available as free, open source software

• Ongoing consultation with libraries and publishers

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Where next for JUSP?

• Sharing knowledge and experience with other sectors in the UK and with overseas consortia

• Applying lessons learned and methodology developed to other communities

• Continued support from publishers as we work to introduce new features.

• Usage data for other services –databases, e-books

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Angela Conyers –Evidence Baseangela.conyers@bcu.ac.uk

Paul Harwood –JISC Collectionsp.harwood@jisc-collections.ac.uk