Usage statistics for collection management The work of JUSP Angela Conyers Evidence Base, Birmingham City University

You librarians always love counting

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

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

150 UK libraries in JUSP All UK higher education institutions and research councils are welcome to participate uk/participants.html

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

COUNTER usage reports JR1 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 / /

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

Some examples: Monthly reports of usage Compare usage of different publishers Titles with the highest use Trends over time

Monthly reports of usage

Compare usage of different publishers

Titles with the highest use- one publisher

Titles with the highest use- all publishers

Trends over time

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

Next steps More content? E-books Databases More of interest for the FE library community? /