CDL ScholarlyStats Consortial Implementation

California Digital Library

CDL ScholarlyStats Consortial Implementation

Ivy Anderson


ICOLC – April 2007

Montreal


UC Consortial Environment 10 Campuses + CDL

CDL also licenses on behalf of Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore Laboratories

3 Licensing ‘Tiers’ Tier 1 – systemwide licensing by the

CDL Tier 2 – collaborative licensing based

at the campuses (if <9 participants)

Tier 3 – locally-licensed resources Resources from any given provider

may encompass all 3 tiers


Contract Process Began discussions March 2006 License signed January 2007

Still in implementation phase Consider this a trial to determine overall value for UC

Why so long? Pricing – a good deal (but one-year only) Services – concerns about how vendor error reporting and

revisions to statistics would be managed SS wanted separate contracts for each campus – eventually agreed

to campus authorization letters Contract iterations were messy – errors kept creeping into docs Unrelated local staffing issues


Per ScholarlyStats Website 70,000 journals and almost 450 databases from 42 platforms

CDL Products Supports 31 of our vendor platforms

Not currently supported CSA, JSTOR, RLG Sites that require ip address for access to statistics Vendors who email statistics (Highwire)

Accounts CDL account + 10 campus accounts

Service Basics: Coverage


Service Basics: Reports Report Types

Consolidated reports Journals: Full-text downloads by platform & journal title Databases: Searches & sessions by database & platform; turnaway statistics

Dashboard Reports Top use journals by platform; low usage journals; top 50 journals across

platforms, etc. (9 in all)

Reporting Periods Latest Reports: monthly (2-month lag) Archived Reports: annual reports and previously released monthly reports

Formats: CSV, Excel, Zip file A Zip file of all reports: contains all the consolidated reports and

dashboard reports in a single file


Service(s) Timeliness is good thus far – reports posted by 20th of each month

SUSHI support

Implemented: ISI Journal Use Reports and Innovative ERM Tested: Ex Libris Verde

Promised a place on their website for vendor notices & problem reports, but not implemented thus far

Staff are helpful and responsive

Interface is clear, intuitive, and easy to use


Consortial Reporting: We’re Not There Yet

Separate accounts and passwords for CDL and individual campuses Campus reports show individual campus stats only CDL reports shows systemwide totals only – functions like just

another library report

No combined view of campus(es) + total usage, percent of usage by campus, etc.

No separate lab stats, so campus totals and overall totals don’t jive Will we have to pay additionally for each lab?


No More Tiers?

We assumed campuses would need separate ScholarlyStats licenses for their Tier 3 resources if they wanted to collect them via ScholarlyStats

SS can’t distinguish Tier 1, 2, & 3 statistics in all cases, even where vendors maintain separate accounts

Some Tier 3 resource statistics show up in campus reports, but inconsistently


Other Caveats There are still several major vendor platforms that ScholarlyStats

doesn’t collect. (CSA, JSTOR, etc.)

ScholarlyStats will not maintain or troubleshoot vendor account information

Limited support for identifying problems in the usage data need a mechanism for annotating reports

Revised data – pulled down in next monthly collection cycle only Means corrections to previous years’ reports will not be retrieved (?)

Reports by platform aren’t that useful; reporting by package (“MPS Collection Platform”) would be more useful

ScholarlyStats reserves the right to include anonymized customer data in 3rd-party reports


Overall Assessment Still in trial / implementation mode – more assessment

needed

Service and support seem very good

Consortial functionality and pricing need work – hope to work with ScholarlyStats on this

Only joint in town with SUSHI on the menu

Ask us again next year….

CDL ScholarlyStats Consortial Implementation

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