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With assistance of
Joke Hendriks& Bert Gazendam
Analysing Primo journal
coverage as a tool for
optimising our
information resources collection
Motivation
2013: survey on Primo / CataloguePlus usage Questions:
What is indexed by Primo / CataloguePlus? Are there alternatives to our existing mix of
information resources? Possible to match new databases with what is
already covered? Reduce the number of databases?
Goal: Improve coverage either by Primo /
CataloguePlus or any combination of alternative bibliographical databases
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Database usage
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Communication &Mass Media Complete
Academic SearchPremier
EconLit
Science Library
I work as information specialist not at the library systems department.
Looking out on primo?
Equinix Plant AMS 3 is right in sight of our Library.
Primo a large Black Box
Collection
UvA is a large general research university 30.000 students and 5.000 employees
Collection budget 2014 € several millions
Journals (incl. publ. portals) 75 %
Bibliographical databases (excl. Primo) € 500.000
Primary goal of a LIS: bring our customers to the journals in our collection in an easy way
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A good advice?
Of course there is Google Scholar, but…
For real research you should use a number of scholarly databases…
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TURF Analysis
ASPx Journal
Annalsx Review
Libraryx Transactionsx Journal Review
etc
PubMedx Journalx Annalsx Review
Libraryx Transactionsx Journal Review
etc
Web of Sciencex Journal
Annalsx Review
Libraryx Transactions
Journal Review
etc
BSPx Journal
AnnalsReviewLibrary
x TransactionsJournal
Reviewetc
MLA-IBJournalx Annalsx Review
Libraryx Transactionsx Journalx Review
etc
Inspecx Journalx Annals
ReviewLibrary
x Transactionsx Journal Review
etc
TURF = Total Unduplicated Reach and Frequency
SPSS Version 22
Extension build into Python Essentials
Best reach and frequency
10627
4761
19091402
970354
10205
10275
2901
3136
2701
Unique
Total titles added
ASP BSPWeb of Science
PubMed MLA-IB Inspec
10267
15388
172971869919699
No. of titles
10627
Reach
Frequency
37153
34017
31107
20832
10627
39855
Scholarly databases
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64 %
Primo
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92 %
Primo Central Index
ACM1092-43880090-00360036-87331368-28220021-99240094-730X0002-953X0144-929X0749-596X0022-39800023-83090363-0277
Brepols0892-19970090-502X0262-40790077-89230029-65620738-39910270-13670138-91300037-80460889-7077
CINAHL0305-00090022-21940022-30180169-09650161-14610031-51250033-29410965-21400002-726X1058-03600007-1269
MEDLINE0305-00090022-21940022-30180169-09650161-14610031-51250033-29410965-21400002-726X1058-03600007-1269
ERIC0305-00090022-21940022-30180169-09650161-14610031-51250033-29410965-21400002-726X1058-03600007-1269
PubMed0305-00090022-21940022-30180169-09650161-14610031-51250033-29410965-21400002-726X1058-03600007-1269
OneFile0305-00090022-21940022-30180169-09650161-14610031-51250033-29410965-21400002-726X1058-03600007-1269
LegalTrac0305-00090022-21940022-30180169-09650161-14610031-51250033-29410965-21400002-726X1058-03600007-1269
SpringerLink
1092-43880090-00360036-87331368-28220021-99240094-730X0002-953X0144-929X0749-596X0022-39800023-83090363-0277
ScienceDirect
1092-43880090-00360036-87331368-28220021-99240094-730X0002-953X0144-929X0749-596X0022-39800023-83090363-0277
BioOne1092-43880090-00360036-87331368-28220021-99240094-730X0002-953X0144-929X0749-596X0022-39800023-83090363-0277
Brill0892-19970090-502X0262-40790077-89230029-65620738-39910270-13670138-91300037-80460889-7077
Royal Society
0892-19970090-502X0262-40790077-89230029-65620738-39910270-13670138-91300037-80460889-7077
AOAC International
0892-19970090-502X0262-40790077-89230029-65620738-3991
Idunn.no0892-19970090-502X0262-40790077-89230029-65620738-39910270-13670138-9130
Wiley Online Library
1092-43880090-00360036-87331368-28220021-99240094-730X0002-953X0144-929X0749-596X0022-39800023-83090363-0277
Collectionplatforms
Publishers
Bibliographical databases
Scholarly Statsjournal usage data (95 %) UvA licensed
SFX exporttarget name & publisher
Publisher title lists
CataloguePlus / Primo
ISSN
Ulrich’s XML Data Servicejournal data worldwide
Ulrich’s XML Data Service
June 2014: 386.365 journals 952 indexing and abstracting
services Former title ISSNs
Bib Instr Bio April 2014
UvAbibliographic databases
48.700 journals
Ulrich
Ind
exed titles
Number of UvA licensed journals:
Scholarly Stats: 24.000 journals (300 OA)
SFX: 25.000 journals (12.000 OA)
ARC: 23.000 titles with ISSN
10.175 Open
Access journals
Overlap 75 %
UvA subscriptions
22.750 journals
Publisher collections in PCI 29.000
journals
Bibliographic databases in PCI 27.800
journals
Primo indexing overlap
ACM, IEEE, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, Wiley Online Library, etc.
Brepols, iDunn, etc.
Web of Science, Gale OneFile, MLA-IB, Medline, etc.
• Not al databases activated• Databases indexing selectively: PubMed
and MLA-IB.
Biographical databases
Collection platformsPublishers
PublishersPublishers
Primo coverage
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Coverage is the proportion of journals in our collection indexed in Primo by the resources in the PCI list.
UvA journals Subscr. % Incl. OA % All 20.022 88% 29.881 91%Current (excl. n. act. dbs): 17.516 77% 27.364 83%Basic (excl. n. act. & licens. dbs): 17.114 75% 26.926 82%
Overlap
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
ASP ,155 ,435 ,025 ,259 -,008 ,048 ,014 ,005 ,054 -,011 ,037 ,209 ,011 ,142 ,096 ,137
ATLA Religion -,015 ,006 ,009 ,010 ,169 ,016 -,021 ,001 ,019 -,034 -,091 ,133 -,033 ,604 ,016 -,002
Art & Architecture Complete -,026 ,001 -,010 -,018 ,038 ,015 -,006 ,000 ,796 -,033 ,007 ,027 ,116 ,013 ,013 ,025
Am Biblio Slavic East European Studies ,029 -,007 ,003 -,006 ,100 ,021 ,022 ,000 ,012 ,084 -,024 ,605 ,085 ,101 -,032 ,101
Avery Index Architectural Periodicals -,015 -,060 -,023 -,031 -,034 -,006 -,009 ,000 ,754 -,019 ,004 -,098 -,088 -,043 -,048 -,073
Arts Humanities Citation Index -,025 ,210 -,021 -,024 ,512 ,141 ,016 -,002 ,259 ,057 ,094 ,150 ,034 ,280 ,029 -,132
Bio Index Past and Present -,025 ,122 ,141 ,192 ,095 ,037 -,041 -,001 ,455 ,132 -,036 ,356 ,069 ,078 ,046 ,227
BSP -,123 ,050 ,027 -,022 -,152 -,026 -,056 ,001 ,015 ,661 ,065 ,030 ,007 -,036 ,065 ,105
Biosis Previews ,317 ,467 -,047 -,118 -,076 -,025 -,166 ,022 -,037 -,200 -,010 ,003 -,005 -,149 -,117 ,121
Linguistic Bibliography -,091 ,319 -,008 ,152 ,039 -,019 ,058 -,005 -,036 ,053 -,091 -,157 ,014 -,008 -,073 -,138
Catalysts Catalysed Reactions ,005 ,003 ,000 ,001 ,000 ,000 ,001 ,924 ,000 ,001 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,002 ,001 -,001
CINAHL Plus with FT ,589 -,122 ,040 ,185 -,074 -,002 ,037 -,008 -,007 ,034 ,025 -,081 ,009 ,043 ,253 -,067
Communication Mass Media Complete ,009 -,001 ,031 ,146 ,048 -,004 ,001 ,000 ,026 ,086 ,718 ,067 ,095 ,047 -,005 ,048
EconLit -,015 ,006 -,028 -,047 -,013 -,012 ,006 ,001 -,030 ,716 -,032 -,026 -,011 -,059 -,127 -,022
EMBASE ,814 ,229 -,026 -,025 -,089 -,019 -,072 ,009 -,029 -,096 ,019 -,049 ,000 -,065 -,017 ,025
ERIC -,081 ,046 ,027 ,738 -,006 ,000 -,042 ,002 ,020 -,127 ,035 ,008 -,003 -,054 -,063 ,028
FIAF Databases -,017 -,022 ,001 ,003 ,001 -,076 -,010 ,000 ,019 -,012 ,030 -,011 ,797 ,006 -,032 -,024
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals -,100 -,025 -,023 -,022 -,195 -,018 -,052 -,001 -,057 -,154 ,156 ,629 -,068 -,167 ,043 -,186
Historical Abstracts ,056 -,052 ,005 -,002 ,357 -,002 ,023 -,001 -,002 ,105 -,222 ,371 -,052 ,225 -,183 -,022
International Index Music Periodicals -,023 -,006 -,002 -,012 -,038 ,893 -,008 ,000 -,023 -,004 ,027 -,008 ,075 -,024 -,007 ,006
International Index Performing Arts -,010 ,003 -,003 -,013 ,076 ,179 -,001 ,000 ,029 -,001 -,012 ,054 ,728 -,019 ,027 -,005
Index to Jewish Periodicals Database -,011 -,008 -,011 -,022 -,128 -,012 -,025 ,001 -,032 -,055 ,107 -,088 ,022 ,750 -,022 ,027
Inspec -,265 ,542 ,147 -,014 -,131 -,039 ,134 -,009 -,056 ,045 -,024 -,079 -,012 -,004 ,082 -,012
LISTA with FT -,004 ,011 ,957 ,011 ,003 ,007 -,006 ,000 ,009 -,002 ,004 ,009 ,001 -,002 -,007 ,003
LISA -,022 ,029 ,786 ,019 -,008 -,004 -,010 ,000 -,007 ,008 ,011 -,004 -,003 ,004 ,000 -,008
LISTA -,005 ,007 ,957 ,009 ,002 ,007 -,007 ,000 ,009 -,003 ,003 ,008 ,000 -,003 -,007 ,003
LLBA -,010 -,013 -,014 ,015 ,206 -,010 ,002 ,000 -,022 -,017 ,733 -,030 -,080 -,031 -,028 -,047
Music Index -,029 -,009 ,001 -,009 -,039 ,898 -,010 ,000 -,024 -,011 ,023 -,009 ,027 -,022 -,005 ,008
MEDLINE ,821 ,260 -,018 -,018 -,055 -,011 -,059 ,007 -,021 -,084 ,015 -,036 ,003 -,078 -,014 ,035
MLA International Bibliography -,108 -,111 ,003 ,033 ,771 -,002 -,061 ,000 -,030 -,104 ,084 -,006 ,043 -,007 -,012 ,068
MLA core -,066 -,013 -,003 -,009 ,742 -,020 -,032 ,000 -,041 -,067 ,210 -,054 ,045 -,079 ,036 ,044
MathSciNet -,041 ,098 -,014 -,027 -,033 -,014 ,914 ,000 -,011 -,027 ,000 -,001 -,006 -,021 -,017 ,011
Natural Product Updates ,004 ,007 ,000 -,001 -,001 ,000 -,001 ,924 ,000 ,000 ,000 -,001 ,000 ,000 ,000 -,001
PubMed ,656 ,190 -,020 ,084 ,011 -,040 -,022 -,002 -,017 ,036 -,079 ,141 -,045 ,075 -,139 ,027
Population Index ,109 -,085 ,001 ,081 ,031 -,002 ,042 ,000 -,001 ,180 -,109 ,119 -,003 -,068 -,482 -,127
PsycInfo ,274 ,054 ,002 ,619 -,011 ,015 ,006 -,003 -,021 ,132 ,092 -,044 -,005 ,032 ,121 -,075
RILM Abstracts Music Literature -,013 -,042 ,016 ,057 ,337 ,468 -,021 ,000 ,123 -,035 -,103 ,059 -,001 ,099 -,002 -,013
Studies Women Gender Abstracts ,012 ,036 ,000 ,779 ,007 -,001 -,019 ,001 -,007 -,030 ,020 -,005 ,003 -,006 -,046 ,102
Science Citation Index Expanded ,346 ,784 -,025 -,099 -,085 -,028 ,082 ,008 -,042 -,090 -,017 -,036 -,012 -,101 ,024 ,035
SPORTDiscus ,098 -,049 -,016 ,051 ,039 -,016 ,005 ,001 -,022 ,075 -,129 ,081 -,012 -,069 ,774 -,081
Social Sciences Citation Index ,180 ,172 ,026 ,493 ,126 ,006 ,010 -,003 ,020 ,496 ,148 ,112 -,035 ,066 ,020 -,109
Web of science ,332 ,805 -,020 ,121 ,152 ,029 ,067 ,005 ,069 ,157 ,053 ,075 -,007 ,041 ,027 -,050
Women Studies Abstracts ,015 -,034 -,011 ,055 ,043 ,001 ,023 -,002 -,004 ,044 ,002 ,015 -,034 ,011 ,016 ,871
Zentralblatt MATH -,062 ,098 -,012 -,030 -,051 -,017 ,913 ,000 -,020 -,019 ,001 -,012 -,007 -,029 -,017 ,009
SCOPUS ,364 ,585 ,004 ,115 -,011 -,027 ,048 -,001 ,037 ,132 ,048 ,023 -,024 ,088 -,034 -,065
Rotated Component Matrixa
Component
Extraction Method: Principal Component Analysis. Rotation Method: Varimax with Kaiser Normalization.a. Rotation converged in 11 iterations.
Collection platforms
SCOPUS
SCOPUS
69 %
Incl. OA
Primo & SCOPUS
92 %
Incl. OA
Costs per unique title
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Cheap databases
23
50 %
Incl. OA
Primo
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90 %
Incl. OA
Metadata indexing
Taylor and Francis Journal
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Indexed in Web of Science
Expected: Results:SH FT SH FT SH FT
Metadata
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N =272
Conclusions
This way of looking at our collection will play a role in future decisions about new databases
It might be more useful to acquire journal content, instead of additional bibliographical databases.
Primo should get more attention in our library skills courses as a one stop tool to get to our journal subscriptions.
Ulrich’s Journal Data is a great framework to map all kind of journal information onto.
If possible, efforts must be made to supplement Primo with databases and publishers not yet indexed.
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Subjects
We are missing journals on Abstracting and Indexing services!
Are there Questions?