Moves to Standardise on Vendor-based User Statistics Ross MacIntyre University of Manchester
Presentation Outline Requirements Existing Standards/Guidelines Case Studies On-going Initiatives Concluding Remarks References
Requirements Libraries –Academic –Commercial –Public Service Providers Publishers
Existing Guidelines/Standards ANSI/NISO Z (Revision of ANSI Z ) Library Statistics ISO 11620:1998 Information & Documentation - Library Performance Indicators ICOLC Guidelines1998
ICOLC Guidelines 1. Requirements - Use Elements –Number of Queries (Searches) –Number of Menu Selections –Number of Sessions (Logins) –Number of Turn-aways –Number of Items Examined Delineated by database, institutional locator, consortium, subscriber-id & time.
ICOLC Guidelines 2. Privacy & User Confidentiality 3. Institutional or Consortial Confidentiality 4. Comparative Statistics 5. Access/Delivery Mechanisms/Report Formats –secure, web-based –tabular data, on-line manipulation, downloadable –graphs/charts
Case Studies JSTOR Catchword ingenta SwetsBlackwell - SwetsnetNavigator RoweCom Blackwell Science - Synergy UK Research Project - SuperJournal
On-going Initiatives JICOLC ( JNISO ( JNCLIS ( JARL ( JCLIR ( JUK - PALS ISO ( EU - Equinox (
Concluding Remarks So what?
Additional References "White Paper on Electronic Journal Usage Statistics” Judy Luther, commissioned by CLIR ( ARL E-Metrics project Phase I Project Report (