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PaperStats from Pubget:A Consortial Usage Stats Service
Rick Burke, SCELCALCTS
New Orleans, LAJune 25, 2011
What is SCELCThe Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium
We serve 111 private academic and nonprofit research libraries throughout the state, plus one in Nevada and three in Texas
Our primary activity has been negotiating offers for electronic resources and related services for our member libraries
We are an opt-in consortium, and we license over 2400 different products
80% of SCELC are schools <2000 FTE, so the small school market is key
Why Usage Stats?As a nonprofit entity, SCELC needs to provide
valuable services to its members that go beyond the core “buying club” activity
Given that the acquisition of e-resources is core to our mission, there was an evident need to help libraries track usage and analyze costs
Existing tools were either too expensive or inadequate to meet the needs of many libraries
Why PaperStats?Pubget, as a discovery tool, started its services
by automating full text article retrieval for end users
Pubget extended its services to automate the serials management and stats analysis process for libraries
This automated login process lends itself to retrieving usage stats quickly and efficiently
Add to this an analysis tool that breaks down the retrieved statistics into meaningful data
SCELC and PaperStatsSCELC worked with Pubget to build on their
automated login technology to create a consortial portal
The consortial version uses institutional identifiers and a single master password to retrieve statistics for every SCELC member
Libraries can go to the portal to retrieve their statistics for the publishers currently covered by PaperStats
SCELC can obtain a consortial view of usage
Without PaperStatsLibrary staff have to gather statistics manually from
many different publishers
Each publisher has Different formats for data and delivery Different access methods Different availability dates
Cost statistics need to be calculated separately
Data needs to be cleaned up and aggregated manually
This can be a labor-intensive and cumbersome process prone to data loss and errors
AutomationPaperStats automates this process
We provide SCELC and COUNTER R3 passwordsPubget interacts with the publishers’ admin data
to retrieve the dataConsortial version includes automated import of
data from consortially-licensed resourcesPubget returns usage reports to the librarianAccess is fast and always available
No need to aggregate data and send it elsewhere for reporting and analysis
Consortial EnhancementsSCELC can track stats for each member
Automated import of consortia stats
Can retrieve data across a series of dates, e.g. a period of months
Member logins are pre-populated
The library can access all COUNTER compliant usage stats across their serials holdings
The library can obtain a top level view of their most and least-viewed publishers and titles
Negotiate More EffectivelyWith COUNTER-compliant costs-per-view in
hand, negotiate with publishers to realize more realistic cost models
Uncover previously hidden cost information
Utilize consortium-wide data to negotiate optimal terms for the group as a whole
Obtain a better understanding of our consortium members’ usage patterns and collection needs
SCELC BenefitsMember-level statistics for e-journal packages
are automatically collected
Libraries pay a very modest fee to access usage data & analysis tools for their SCELC packages
Libraries have the option to license PaperStats individually to add non-SCELC (locally-licensed) packages
Consortia-wide data readily available to the whole group for analysis and reporting
Publishers Covered by SCELC PaperStats
ACS
Cambridge Univ Press
EBSCOHost
Elsevier ScienceDirect
Emerald
Gale
Nature Publishing Group
Palgrave Macmillan
Springer (Metapress)
Wiley
Forthcoming Coverage(By September 2011)
Atypon Link
BioOne
Highwire Press
H.W. Wilson (now EBSCO)
JSTOR
OCLC FirstSearch
Oxford Univ Press
Project Muse
ProQuest
SAGE Publications
Univ of Chicago Press
Slicing and Dicing…ACS
Single Consortia-levelpassword
Automatic Harvestingfor ALL members
Breadth of package use
For whole consortium or individual members
Full list & Supporting Raw reports downloadable from same screen
Does this institution need the package?
What about this one?
Or this one?
Cost analysis (coming soon at the consortial level)
• Can I save money by dropping journals?– Cost analysis: Highest cost per view journals
• Can I save money by adding journals?– Cost analysis: PPV vs Subscription
• Is this bundle saving me money?– Cost analysis: Bundle vs Journal
