JUSP at Brunel University

Making the Most of JUSP – Brunel University case studyDom Benson

11 June 2015

Brunel University London

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Making the Most of JUSP – Brunel case study 2

JUSP: shared service = good practice

> CPD25: Shared Services Event (held at Birkbeck College, 30/01/2014). Notes by Malcolm Emmett, Brunel University (Feb 2014)

> There can be a tendency at these events to find that people are somewhat complacent, assuming for example that Shared Services are automatically a 'good thing' and save money. It was refreshing therefore to hear one speaker saying that "shared services may produce better outcomes but don't necessarily save money. It was also good that several speakers recognised existing good practice around shared services such as: CPD25 itself; M25 group; SCONUL access scheme; and JUSP.

> JUSP and IRUS (presented by Jo Lambert, MIMAS/JISC)

> JUSP is a service that extracts usage data on e-journals on our behalf and provides comparison with our comparators. … in the early stage of looking at e-book statistics. Relies heavily on COUNTER reports inc JR1 GOA (Open Access). Looking at JR5 reports – which look at usage by year allowing comparisons between current content and archive content. … Currently completing work to improve interoperability between JUSP and KB+. Usage profiling reports offer the opportunity to compare within JISC bands, regionally, and across groups such as Russell Group

> IRUS - was PIRUS but became IRUS, dropping the P (for Publishers because of lack of cooperation). Found to be easier without them. We hope to be part of this once we have upgraded the software we use for BURA.

“…several speakers recognised existing good practice around shared services”


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Impressive numbers

3 weeks to build a SUSHI client from scratch – cost savings > 97% – time savings approaching 90% – > 100 million data points – journal titles > 20,600, how many does your institution use per year? There’s a report for that!

(Meehan, P., Needham, P. & MacIntyre, R. 2012, “SUSHI: delivering major benefits to JUSP”, Ariadne, no. 70)

Libraries = 181; publishers and aggregators in JUSP = 69 (3 in pipeline)


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Issues – keeping on top of things


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Issues – just why are zero use titles missing from Atypon hosted publishers? (verify the JR1 report vs the Titles included in deals per year report!)


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Brunel’s next steps (~1 year ago…)

Adoption of an e-Strategy as part of the revised Collection Development Policy

Based on OCLC’s strategy document “Meeting the e-Resources Challenge”

Includes usage statistics so reliant on JUSP

Hope to include ERM (reliant on KB+ and related resources)

Demonstrate return on investment and value for money

Include 6 TERMS workflow, which puts usage at its heart

6 TERMS wiki: http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/19461/

6 TERMS blog: https://library3.hud.ac.uk/blogs/terms/

http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/19461/

https://library3.hud.ac.uk/blogs/terms/


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6 TERMS – Jill Emery & Graham Stone, Library Technology Reports, Feb/Mar 2013 Ch. 1-8


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Interoperability: JUSP data is validated so why not use it in your COUNTER usage portal instead of the publishers’ data?


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Interoperability: SUSHI administration, set up requirements and obtain your IDs…


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SUSHI administration: where necessary ask your usage portal vendor to add an additional SUSHI target per publisher and test…

• JUSP’s SUSHI server target: https://www.jusp.mimas.ac.uk/sushiserverR4/

• Your RequestorID: [three letter site code]

• The CustomerReferenceID: [1, 2 or 3 digit ref. number]

• Once these elements have been configured on your SUSHI configuration form, test to see if JR1/JR1a/JR1 GOA reports are returned [ask your usage portal vendor to configure relevant options if any are missing]

• Your usage portal vendor may optionally collect usage reports manually – however, if SUSHI reporting is successful, manual harvesting will not be carried out to avoid any duplication / double counting

https://www.jusp.mimas.ac.uk/sushiserverR4/

https://www.jusp.mimas.ac.uk/sushiserverR4/


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SCONUL return report

The SCONUL return report for all publishers instantly provides the JR1 data for ca.50 publishers.

Paul Meehan keeps a close eye on things on behalf of the JUSP community and gets things corrected (when notified of a problem by publisher or, most likely, by one of the 181 members)

Hi folks,

As we are all aware, the deadline for submitting your SCONUL return for academic year 2013/14 is looming, and we hope you'll make use of JUSP's 'SCONUL Return' report to help save you lots of time pulling together the figures. Just to keep you informed, you can of course run the SCONUL return report at any time, but we are still waiting on one publisher to release their July 2014 data and thus complete the dataset for the reporting period.

That publisher … told us that the likely release of the data, following some technical problems, will be Wednesday September 10th.

I will of course email everyone as soon as the … data have been released, but feel free to go ahead and use the report functionality now (with the caveat of one incomplete set of figures).

Thanks,Paul


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SCONUL return

The SCONUL return report now provides over 70% of our overall SCONUL return for journal downloads.

Do suggest new publishers on JUSP’s rolling publisher wishlist survey (are any of your archives missing?)

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/?sm=tUJMr2PCVjhbUaR1ul%2bRmacAnyQKW%2f68pwilIuV7XdY%3d

Summary sheet used to calculate SCONUL return

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/?sm=tUJMr2PCVjhbUaR1ul%2BRmacAnyQKW/68pwilIuV7XdY%3D


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Monthly report to LMT

Management wants more and more data

JUSP’s Summary of publisher usage by date range report is an instant win (time lags notwithstanding)


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Favourite report: usage profiling for cross sector comparisonAs a medium sized institution Brunel University tends to come out relatively favourably for the big deal packages


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Favourite report: usage profiling for cross sector comparisonUsage profiling may help planning but treat comparisons with caution, especially where the publisher’s subject or discipline is particularly strong or weak locally…


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Of mice and muons…

Brunel University may not have had a physics department for two decades but a small research group collaborating at CERN needs access to physics journals


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Gateways and intermediaries

Perhaps on the wane but useful additional data nevertheless…


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Individual journal(s) search and usageFor ad hoc answers and private investigations – for example: what has happened to that transferred title, British journal of … ? It hadn’t appeared on the new publisher’s JR1 report for 2015 because its eISSN was associated with another title [now fixed]


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KB+ title lists

One publisher’s lists hasn’t emerged for 2015 yet – JUSP’s titles included in deals per year report (see next slide) can tell us (BIBSAM is the Swedish consortium)


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Titles included in deals per year

JUSP can give us a verified title list in the deal (it will use metadata from the previous year until the new KB+ list is made available and linked to JUSP, NB: transfers / new starts may be pending, check with the JUSP and/or KB+ team if you spot any anomalies)


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Trends over time

Spikes and troughs. Does anything look odd? Does the trend correlate with budget cuts or changes in FTE?


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Top 100 – tailing off

What are your usual suspects? Which disciplines carry weight? (See also the slides from NISO Virtual Conference: Expanding the Assessment Toolbox: Blending the Old and New Assessment Practices, particularly Diane Dawson’s presentation http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/virtual_conferences/assessment_toolbox/

http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/virtual_conferences/assessment_toolbox/


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Add your archives holdings so you can keep track of JR1a data…


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Archives usage…


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More data? B-JUSP? BR2 please!

Last month one vendor’s BR2 data fell off a cliff

JUSP would spot this on behalf of all participating members and work with the vendor to get the data recalibrated and restated


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What else? How about subject data?

We may need to report to our planning departments by Unit of Assessment

Can we map JR1 usage to HILCC (or similar subject classification schema)?

The HILCC project was created by University of Columbia and was published under CC – BY - NC license, see:

https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/bts/hilcc/

https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/bts/hilcc/subject_map.html

Davis, S. 2002, "HILCC: A Hierarchical Interface to Library of Congress Classification", Journal of Internet Cataloging, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 19-49.

https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/bts/hilcc/

https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/bts/hilcc/subject_map.html


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Making the Most of JUSP

JUSP in practice: take a deeper look

http://ariadne.ac.uk/issue70/meehan-et-al

http://www.jusp.mimas.ac.uk/papers-presentations/

https://www.jusp.mimas.ac.uk/secure/demonstrator/index2.php

http://jusp.mimas.ac.uk/news/JUSP_Community_Survey_Report_2014.pdf

http://www.slideshare.net/JUSPSTATS/niso-usage290415

https://storify.com/joeyanne/making-the-most-of-jusp-4th-june-2014

https://storify.com/JUSP/making-the-most-of-jusp-4th-march-2015

http://ariadne.ac.uk/issue70/meehan-et-al














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Any questions?

JUSP is one of the few tools around that we can use to reduce the number of data silos. It works seamlessly in the background saving us days of work.

Most of us don’t like silos. For those who do…

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http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/08/25/granville-island-vancouver-biennale_n_5711535.html

Thank you!

Dom Benson

Electronic Resources Librarian

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