Usage statistics for collection managementThe work of JUSPAngela Conyers

Evidence Base, Birmingham City University angela.conyers@bcu.ac.uk

You librarians always love counting

Why count?

Usage statistics provide essential evidence:• to show how e-resources

are being used• to look at trends over time• to inform

renewal/cancellation decisions

• to demonstrate value for money

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What does it all mean?

How to use the figures to analyse usage and show value for money

The Journal Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP)

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JUSP – Journal Usage Statistics Portal

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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Libraries in JUSP

• 150 UK libraries in JUSP

• All UK higher education institutions and research councils are welcome to participate

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

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Publishers and intermediaries in JUSP• American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) • American Association for the Advancement of Science

(AAAS) • American Chemical Society (ACS)• American Diabetes Association (ADA) • American Institute of Physics (AIP) • Annual Reviews • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) • American Society of Agronomy (ASA) • Berg Publishers • BioOne • BRILL • British Medical Journal Publishing Group (BMJ) • Cambridge University Press (CUP) • Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) • Duke University Press • Edinburgh University Press (EUP) • Elsevier • Emerald • European Respiratory Society • Future Medicine Ltd • Geological Society of America • IEEE• IOP Publishing• IOS Press

• Irish Newspaper Archive • JSAD - Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs • JSTOR • Liverpool University Press (LUP) • Nature Publishing Group (NPG) • Oxford University Press (OUP) • Project MUSE • Royal College of Psychiatrists • Royal Society • Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) • Royal Society of Medicine • SAGE • Society for General Microbiology • Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) • Springer• Taylor & Francis • Wiley-Blackwell

3 intermediaries• Ebsco EJS• Publishing Technology (ingentaconnect)• Swets

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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How do we collect data?

• Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI)

• M2M way of gathering statistics

• Replaces the user-mediated collection of usage reports

• SUSHI server to gather data from JUSP

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What reports do we offer?

Some examples:

• Monthly reports of usage

• Compare usage of different publishers

• Titles with the highest use

• Trends over time

Monthly reports of usage

Compare usage of different publishers

Titles with the highest use- one publisher

Titles with the highest use-all publishers

Trends over time

Community engagement• Community resource

responding to what people want

• Working closely with libraries to understand how JUSP is being used and how it can help decision-making

• Information sharing and training events

• Developing new reports and features from user feedback

• Quick response rates encourage active user participation

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Next steps

More content?

• E-books

• Databases

More of interest for the FE library community?

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Visit: jusp.mimas.ac.ukEmail: jusp@mimas.ac.uk

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