Nancy TurnerSyracuse University Library

ARL Survey Coordinators and SPEC LiaisonsJanuary 19, 2007

E-Metrics Services and ARL Statistics

Current Standards

● Counter Code of Practice– International set of standards for vendor recording of

online usage data – Standards available for electronic journals and

databases, e-book standards in development– ARL Supplementary Statistics (05-06) limits reporting

to Counter-compliant figures

● SUSHI– NISO Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting

Initiative– Designed to work in conjunction with Electronic

Resource Management software (ERM)

● ScholarlyStats

● MPS Technologies software, now marketed and sold by EBSCO

● Trial conducted at Syracuse in August, 2006● Generates reports for usage of databases and

electronic journals for many Counter-compliant vendor platforms

● http://www.scholarlystats.com

● Statistics collected from multiple vendors

● Delivered to single portal

● May then be passed to ERM or compiled for other purposes

Journal Use Reports

● ISI (Thompson Scientific)● Trial conducted at Syracuse in August 2006 ● Works in conjunction with other ISI Web of

Knowledge (citation analysis) products

● http://scientific.thomson.com/webofknowledge/jur-cust.html

Journal Use Reports

Journal Citation Reports (three years of citation data that is merged with the data in your institution's Holdings and Vendor Usage Data files) 2. Web of Science (three years of data, along with author addresses that are matched against the addresses in your institution's Profiles) 3. Holdings (your institution's library collection) 4. Vendor Usage Data (your institution's vendor usage data)

Quick Comparison

May also require subscription to Web of Knowledge ($18,000)

Cost by Platform and library type (9,000-14,000)

Journals only, profile uploaded by user

Journals and databases (counter-compliant)

User uploads reports from vendors

Automated collection with provision of access info

Journal Usage ReportsScholarlyStats