Making the most of JUSP Usage statistics in practice Siobhán Burke University of Manchester Library
A subject drier than the… …the Sahara!
Life before JUSP Statistics collected twice yearly Required full-time staff member approximately 2 months Over 150 separate suppliers/services/reports collected For SCONUL & internal reporting purposes
Life before JUSP
Probably the best thing since… …sliced bread
What has JUSP done for us? Kick-started work on automating usage statistics retrieval Opportunity for subscription and data tidy up Use of SUSHI: UStat service Sense of community: we're all in this together!
What can JUSP do for us? Journal search The Reports – JR1 excluding backfile data – SCONUL returns – Trends over time summary of usage – Numbers of titles and requests in various reports Marking core titles