JUSP Utilising usage data to assist

in decision-makingAngela Conyers

Evidence Base, Research & EvaluationBirmingham City University

2012

Some memorable events

2013

International Year of Statistics

“Statistics can be used to help make well-informed choices, take sound decisions and understand the society and the world we live in”

Chris Skinner, Professor of Statistics, LSE

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

What does it all mean?

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

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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

• 151 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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Collecting the evidence

• Have you got all the information you need?

• Is it complete?

• Is it too much?

Have you got all the information you need?JR1 and JR1A reports

Is it complete?Adding intermediaries

Is it too much?Subtracting the backfiles

Usage data for decision- making

Some JUSP reports:

• SCONUL returns• Trends over time• Titles with the highest use• Titles and deals

SCONUL returns

Trends over time

Titles with the highest use-all publishers

What’s the deal?

• What titles are in the deal?

• Comparing deals

• Looking at deals over time

• Usage of titles and deals

Viewing usage of titles and deals

Usage ranges showing nil use

Core or subscribed titles

Mark these up in JUSP:• To view value of a deal:

How much use is being made of the core titles?How much use is being made of the unsubscribed titles included in the deal?

• To review usage with schools/faculties • To consider possible

cancellations/substitutions where these are allowed.

Titles with the highest usewhich are core titles?

Adding cost or subject data to JUSP reports

Most JUSP reports can be downloaded:• Add costs to the ‘annual summary of publisher

use’ to compare costs per download• Core titles cost more: sort reports by ‘core’

and ‘non-core’ titles to compare costs of each• Add your subject categories or fund codes to

core or subscribed titles to report on usage to schools/faculties

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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JUSP Utilising usage data to assist in decision-making

angela.conyers@bcu.ac.ukwww.jusp.mimas.ac.uk

Helpdesk: jusp@mimas.ac.uk@juspstats