1. Jean Rick Reference and Instruction Librarian Meredith College
Manipulating Statistics
26th NC Serials Conference
Jean Rick
Reference and Instruction Librarian
Meredith College

2. 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)

3. 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%)

4. Statistics Use and turnaway Use statistics tell you if
something is being used

5. Databases Ebsco or Proquest will tell me what is used in any given
Site: MEREDITH COLLEGE (Database: PsycARTICLES) Period: January December 2016
ISSN/ISBN
Title
Total Full Text
121649
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
373 X
American Psychologist
217
Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory & Cognition
214
Psychology & Aging
192
Emotion
184
223514
Journal of Personality & Social Psychology
155
Journal of Family Psychology
149
Psychological Assessment
137 X
Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology
131
220663
Thinking and feeling poetry: Exploring meanings aloud
123 X
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
106
29432
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 97
219010
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY 96
HEALTH PSYCHOL 95
332909
Psychological Bulletin 89 X
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?

6. Publisher statistics Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
SAGE Publications
SAGE Journals
/spra
spra 4 1 3
Journal of Social Archaeology
/jsaa
jsaa

7. 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

8. 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?

9. 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

10. 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.

11. 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