Jean Rick Reference and Instruction Librarian Meredith College Manipulating Statistics 26th NC Serials Conference Jean Rick Reference and Instruction Librarian Meredith College
Assumptions Note: Conference planners asked me to use a variety of vendors not just OCLC so the statistics presented are from a number of sources. Link resolver that finds text in other databases Journal purchases may be a current subscription or backfiles Perpetual access/leasing (designated funds)
Overlap analysis Ebsco Business Source Premier provides 2,600 titles, of which 1,784 (68.62%) are accessible in other databases. Titles Duplicated Ebsco Education Research Complete 87 (3.35%) EBSCO Entrepreneurial Studies Source 50 (1.92%) EBSCO Environment Complete 65 (2.50%) Ebsco Health Source: Consumer Edition 11 (0.42%) Ebsco Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition 40 (1.54%) Ebsco Humanities International Complete Ebsco LISTA w/Full text 27 (1.04%) EBSCO Literary Reference Center Plus 124 (4.77%)
Statistics Use and turnaway Use statistics tell you if something is being used
Databases Ebsco or Proquest will tell me what is used in any given Site: MEREDITH COLLEGE (Database: PsycARTICLES) Period: January 2016 - December 2016 ISSN/ISBN Title Total Full Text 121649 DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 373 0003066X American Psychologist 217 2787393 Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory & Cognition 214 8827974 Psychology & Aging 192 15283542 Emotion 184 223514 Journal of Personality & Social Psychology 155 8933200 Journal of Family Psychology 149 10403590 Psychological Assessment 137 0022006X Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology 131 220663 Thinking and feeling poetry: Exploring meanings aloud 123 0021843X Journal of Abnormal Psychology 106 29432 American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 97 219010 JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY 96 2786133 HEALTH PSYCHOL 95 332909 Psychological Bulletin 89 0893164X Psychology of Addictive Behaviors 67 963445 Journal of Experimental Psychology. General 57 220167 Journal of Counseling Psychology 53 Ebsco or Proquest will tell me what is used in any given database However, you cannot cancel a single title The question becomes are the majority of titles in the database used?
Publisher statistics Journal of Social and Personal Relationships SAGE Publications SAGE Journals 10.1177/spra spra 0265-4075 1460-3608 4 1 3 Journal of Social Archaeology 10.1177/jsaa jsaa 1469-6053 1741-2951
Use of a single title Publisher databases not used as indexes have more weight How many places can you get a title? How many do I include? Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior Science Direct 1/1/2004 Current Ebsco Academic Search Premier 1/1/2002 11/2/2005 Ebsco Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition ProQuest Research Library 3/1/1997 11/1/2001 ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Database ProQuest Education Database
The problem of turnaways Publishers use these to encourage you to buy Who is turned away and why? Is there a comparable journal by another publisher?
Comparison shopping/COUNTER/SUSHI PagesViewed PagesCopied PagesPrinted UniqueDocuments UserSessions 2,485 4 120 156 215 3,321 29 207 193 271 6,345 70 638 309 511 10,746 89 868 467 843 2,362 18 367 115 162 2,337 66 425 114 182 1,402 10 634 72 1,133 834 98 5,060 30 839 245 444 7,509 44 932 294 669 10,515 106 261 477 813 5,823 48 304 209 352
Worldshare statistics/ILL AMBIX : THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF ALCHEMY AND EARLY CHEMISTRY.u SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF ALCHEMY AND EARLY CHEMISTRY; SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF AMBIX : THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF ALCHEMY AND EARLY CHEMISTRY. AMERICAN BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST. 1960 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY. SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND PUBLIC HEALTH. 1965 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF KIDNEY DISEASES : AJKD : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE NATIONA NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MENTAL DEFICIENCY. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ON MENTAL DEFICIENCY AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS. ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PSYCHOANALYSIS. 1941 AMERICAN REVIEW OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION. AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; PARK COLLEGE; UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AMON HEN. TOLKIEN SOCIETY. 19UU ANAEROBE. ANAEROBE SOCIETY OF THE AMERICAS APPALACHIAN JOURNAL.
Other systems for mining data ALS/Searches tell you patterns not journal titles Library Journal/average cost of a journal per discipline University stats/FTE per discipline OCLC who are you borrowing from and how fast are they? Copyright Clearance Center versus paying document delivery service? Statistics as a way to promote faculty awareness