The Journal Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP)

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Adding value to JUSP

• Introduction to JUSP

• Live demo

• Future plans

• Q&A

Session outline

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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Who?

Libraries in JUSP

• 141 libraries in JUSP

• All UK higher education institutions are welcome to participate

• http://jusp.mimas.ac.uk/participants.html

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Adding value to JUSP

• Informing decisions for substitutions/cancellations • Collecting data for regular reporting and

decision making• Assisting academic departments in

understanding resource use •Making effective use of staff time

How libraries are using JUSP

Publishers and intermediaries in JUSP19 publishers

• AAAS• AIP• Annual Reviews• BioOne• BMJ• EUP• Elsevier• Emerald• Future Medicine• IOP Publishing• IOS Press• Nature Publishing Group• Oxford University Press• Project MUSE• Royal Society of Chemistry• SAGE• Springer• Taylor & Francis• Wiley-Blackwell

3 intermediaries• Ebsco EJS• Publishing Technology

(ingentaconnect)• Swets

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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

• 12 JUSP SUSHI clients available

• SUSHI server to gather data from JUSP

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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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JUSP report type JUSP report title

Journal level reports • JR1 and JR1A reports• JR1 reports inc gateways and intermediaries• JR1 reports excluding backfile usage

Summary reports • SCONUL return• Summary of publisher usage• Summary use of gateway and host intermediaries• Summary use of backfiles• Tables and graphs• Which titles have highest use• Number of titles and requests in usage ranges

Experimental reports • NESLi2 deals• Titles vs NESLi2 deals• Individual journal search and usage• Breakdown of publisher usage (title and year)

(title and date range)

What data are we presenting?

Adding value to JUSP

JUSP enhancements:

• Adding subscribed or core titles

•What titles are in the deal?

Helping to judge the value of a deal

Adding subscribed or core titles

• How much are the subscribed titles being used?

• How much are other titles in the deal being used?

• Does usage show that the deal offers better value than individual subscribed titles?

Adding subscribed or core titles

What titles are in the deal?

Accounting for nil usage• Does the JR1 report contain titles that are not

available in the collection the library subscribes to?

• Does the JR1 report contain titles that are no longer part of the current deal e.g. name changes, publisher changes?

What titles are in the deal?

How many titles are in the deal?

Project Muse JR1 for 2011 for a library with the Basic Research Collection–

59% of titles in the JR1 are not in the library’s deal and will show nil use.

Titles in the Premium Collection in the JR1 498

Titles in the Basic Research Collection 206

Titles in the JR1 not available to the Library 292

How many titles are in the deal?

JUSP enhancements

• Usage patterns of subscribed or core titles

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

• Adding more publishers

What titles are in the deal?

• Adding more publishers

• Completing work on enhancements

• Continuing to develop JUSP with help from community

• Sustainability models

Future developments

What titles are in the deal?

We are doing various things to help people use JUSP more effectively:

• Developing support materials

• Running training events

• Interoperability with other tools

Support

What titles are in the deal?

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Q&A