Journal Use Reports

Journal Use Reports

Supporting Collection Development and Evaluation of Intellectual Output

Copyright 2006 Thomson Corporation

Journal Use Reports – Customer Focused Development

• Partners: Integral to Our Internal Processes– Product Development

– Programming and Project Management

– Quality assurance

– Marketing

• Ensuring the understanding of workflow, pain points, and changing requirements

• Influencing core application functionality

• Continuing role as advisors

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Collection Development

• What tools do Collection Librarians Have?• Input from Faculty

• Understanding of the Discipline

• Understanding the needs of the Community

• JCR

• Usage Data

• Cost/Funds (special $$ allocations)

• Pertinence to Local Focus

• Reviews

• Where Journal Use Reports Fits– Provides centralized information source

– Compliments other collection management tools

– Allows title by title view or package comparisons


Journal Use Reports

Core Components A customer specific database to house a library’s data and profiles.

Will be searched by the user. A journals holdings and upload system where a library’s lists and

vendor data can be uploaded to the JUR for analysis.

A citation analysis system which includes a view of the JCR localized to the library’s holdings as well as the ability to view citation metrics on titles not indexed by ISI.

A publication activity system which will allow analysis of faculty use of literature.

A usage data system presenting journal and publisher level metrics and vendor supplied usage data.

The interface allows the user to perform a variety of tasks including view, compare, evaluate, and report on the data.


Why Buy Journal Use Reports if I Currently Only Use Usage Data?

Journal X

•100 full text links per year

•Generally well respected

Journal Y

•50 full text links per year

•Generally well respected

•Has published critical articles

•Higher citations per article (Impact Factor)

•Higher publications from within institution

•Higher citation count within institution


Journal Use Reports (JUR) – the assembled pieces of the puzzle.Providing vital information to support your decision-making.

Journal Usage

Journal Influence

Institutional Publication Activity

associated with Journals

Key Factors

Which journals are the most influential in their fields?In order to provide superior support of research and

scholarly pursuit at all levels, access to the journals deemed most important by the world’s scholarly communities within

each discipline is critical.

In which journals do the authors at your institution publish, and which journals do they rely on most to support their

own published research? This localized “hard evidence” of exactly what is

important and useful is an essential piece of the decision-making equation.

Which journals are accessed most frequently by your university, college, organizational community as a whole?

Fundamental and indispensable evidence of value.


Profiles for consortia


Create address-based “profiles” to account for

publishing sub-communities within departments,

research centers, etc. -- allows for targeted

collection development as well as focused evaluation of intellectual output.


Journal Influence

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is a recognized authority presenting

statistical data that provides a systematic, objective way to evaluate the world's leading journals and their impact and

influence in the global scholarly community.


Institutional Publication

Activity associated with

this Journal

The number of papers published in this journal by authors within your institution, with a link to a listing of each paper.

The JUR capability for multiple “profiles” enables great flexibility for targeting what is useful to particular sub-communities.


Institutional Publication Activity: a comparative view


Institutional Publication Activity

Cited Journals – Citing Year Table -- shows how many times each

journal was cited by “your authors” and the distribution of those citations according to the publication year of

these citing articles.


Journal Usage

The level at which the content of this electronic journal within your collection

is being accessed.Again – fundamental and

indispensable evidence of value.

Vendor Usage: the big picture

Valuable in viewing the “trends” in usage.

Noticeable Growth or Decline?


JUR Development - Reporting


JUR Development - Reporting


Journal Use Reports – Getting Started

You will access the Journal Use Reports

through the ISI Web of Knowledge home page.


Journal Use Reports – Getting Started, the Upload Utility

As an optional for-fee service, TS can upload your vendor usage data. There are two service options:

– 1-25 vendors

– 26-50 vendors

And...

JUR will accept vendor usage data import from the MPS Scholarly Stats service.


• Subject categories

• Journal price

• Consortia

• Integration with other services / ERMs

• SUSHI

JUR Development - 2007

Journal Use Reports – Powerful Decision-Supportfor Journals Collection Development, and more.

Journal Usage

- Vendor e-jrnl usage, of course

an essential component, now combined with

valuable publication and citation metrics.

Journal Influence

- JCR Data is authoritative,

comparative, and objective.

- Links to additional JCR Information

Institutional Publication Activity associated with specific

Journals.- In which journals do your authors publish,

and how frequently?- Which Journals do they Cite in their own

works?- Link to Web of Science for more detail about these authors’ published works,

cited and citing data, etc.

- The key pieces of information that you require – in one place.

- Providing answers to the most critical questions.

- Enabling thorough and efficient evaluation and assessment.

Documents

Journal Use Reports