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COUNTER and e-resource management tools Link Servers, Metasearch tools, ERM systems UKSG: December 2005 Jenny Walker VP Marketing Ex Libris Group [email protected]
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COUNTER and e-resource
management tools
Link Servers, Metasearch tools, ERM systems
UKSG: December 2005
Jenny WalkerVP Marketing
Ex Libris Group
e-Resource Management Tools?
SIAM journal on applied mathematics
SUSHI
SUSHI
Standards Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative
Initial premise: too difficult/too expensive for libraries to get their statistics each month
Goal: to retrieve and import COUNTER reports from compliant content providers into local systems automatically.
Proof-of-concept uses Web (SOAP) services – COUNTER JR-1 report
NISO workshop – early 2006
Tripped up by Terminology?
Platform/Service
Publisher
Journals
Interface
Link Target
e-journals
Search Target
Collection?
e-Product (Interface)
e-Product (Package)
e-Product(e-journals)
Linking/Link Resolvers
COUNTER basics
Q: Who gets to count full text requests? Publisher? Aggregator? E-Journal gateway? Link Resolver?
A: The party that delivers the actual text to the user
Linking
A&I Database
A&I Database
Link Resolver
Link Resolver
Publisher site
Publisher site
User finds citation of interest in an A&I
database. An OpenURL link is
providedCitation
Link menu
Full Text
Link-Out Link-Out Full text
JSTOR Annual Linking Totals
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005*
Total Accesses 50,279,128 80,082,633 131,510,667 171,969,141 226,509,990
Articles Viewed 7,928,405 14,645,589 25,934,992 35,263,463 60,795,293
Links to JSTOR 207,278 1,453,751 2,952,760 4,728,941 6,289,342
Links to Articles Viewed Ratio 2.61% 9.93% 11.39% 13.41% 11.74%
* Year end projection
By kind permission of JSTOR
Portals/Metasearch
Metasearch
Also known as: Federated search Broadcast search
User presented with a single search interface Searches multiple information sources at
same time Eliminates (or assists with) resource selection Retrieve, consolidates and ranks results A new challenge for statistics
Metasearch: a new challenge
What can be affected Session counts Search counts
Why? “Search all” option or automatic selection/search
of many resources Perform simultaneous activities Optimization techniques
Searching without Metasearch
EBSCO OCLC ProQuest OVID
user
Resources
-Product 1-Product 2-Product 3…
Visits = 1Sessions = 2Searches = 2
Visits = 1Sessions = 2Searches = 2
With Metasearch engine
EBSCO OCLC ProQuest OVID
user
Metasearch
-Search All -Business-Medicine…
Visits = 1Sessions = 20Searches = 20
Visits = 1Sessions = 20Searches = 20
Visits = 1Sessions = 20Searches = 20
Visits = 1Sessions = 20Searches = 20
With Metasearch engine
EBSCO OCLC ProQuest OVID
user
Metasearch
-Search All -Business-Medicine…
Visits = 1Sessions = 28Searches = 28
Visits = 1Sessions = 28Searches = 28
Metasearch lessons
Libraries should want to isolate metasearch sessions and searches Capture source of activity Isolate metasearch IP address Have metasearch access through separate
account Support metasearch standardization activities
through NISO We need a standard way to recognize a
metasearch session
e-Resource Reports and Stats
Metasearch Tools Searches by Search Target
Link Resolvers Clickthroughs per Journal Clickthroughs per Link Target
ERM systems Cost-usage analysis Overlap analysis
