Tricia Clayton, Collection Services Librarian, tclayton3@gsu.edu

Georgia State University Library

GUGM May 17, 2012

Implementing EBSCONETUsage Consolidation

at Georgia State University

What is Usage Consolidation?

Image attribution: Storage units by ahhyeah, http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahhyeah/55445362/

Accepted COUNTER reports – Release 3:

• Journal Report 1 – fulltext requests

• Database Report 1 – searches and sessions

• Database Report 2 - turnaways

Brain Research – Integration into EBSCONET Subscription Management

ERM Essentials & Usage Consolidationdon’t communicate

Opening page of UC

Configuring JSTOR

Additional fields if harvest using SUSHI:

Steps for loading usage data:

1) Upload file to the system (manually or

via SUSHI load)

Steps for loading usage data:

2) System checks validity of file

3) System matches titles to KB

Why title match?

so resources across different vendors can be accurately consolidated across different platforms

matching ensures the usage statistics for these are applied to 1 journal and NOT 3 separate ones

Platform Same Journal, Different Titles

JSTOR Journal A; The Study of BC & D

Gale Study of BC & D. Journal A

Proquest Study of BC & D

Steps for loading usage data:

4) Review load and work through exceptions

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Steps for loading usage data:

5) Mark review as complete – usage files become

available through reporting

Reporting options

Title details sorted by publisher, title Jan 2011

limit = > 100 requests

Title details sorted by usage 2011limit = most 100 used titles

Title usage summarized by publisherNovember 2011, sorted by usage

Project Planning – The Timeline

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GSU’s Usage Consolidation Timeline (projected!)

Road blocks and other challenges….

It certainly isn’t plug ‘n play:

Platform configurationAdd to KB first?

Matching titlesResearch title history &our collection content

Manipulating COUNTER reports

Image attribution: Road block by annamatic3000, http://www.flickr.com/photos/annamatic3000/2140363882/

Road blocks and other challenges….

Waiting on fixes Titles added to KB Diacritics Matching glitches: -- some titles won’t match; -- some matches aren’t retained

Cost per use

Post load data discoveries

Image attribution: Wash out by Adam Franco, http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamfranco/2804475369/

Administration in Social Work – 2011 usage in EBSCONET –

estimated usage with incomplete COUNTER report load

Enhancements we would like to see:

Ability to set viewing preferences for results lists

Full list of available platforms in the configure section

Ability to search by ISSN when title matching

Ability to reverse an ignore decision, or modify a match

Integration with ERM Essentials

A User Community

DONE!COMING

Some of our questions:

COUNTER Release 4

Excel vs. xml vs. cvs

Zero usage titles

Image attribution: The thinker, by brainbrarian, http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianbrarian/201882022/

Image attribution: Balance by hans s, http://www.flickr.com/photos/archeon/2941655917 /

Image attributions:Slide 2: Storage units by ahhyeah, http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahhyeah/55445362/

CC by NC-ND 2.0

Slide 20: Chronology of flight by Elsie esq., http://www.flickr.com/photos/elsie/4607687530/ CC by 2.0

Slide 22: Road block by annamatic3000, http://www.flickr.com/photos/annamatic3000/2140363882 CC by NC-ND 2.0

Slide 23: Wash out by Adam Franco, http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamfranco/2804475369/ CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Slide 27: The thinker by brianbrarian, http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianbrarian/201882022 CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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