1. Are your ebooks being used?
CILIP Conference 2016
Jo Alcock
Do you currently track usage of ebooks?
Do you track usage of print books?
Do you track usage of print or electronic journals?

2. Ensure value for money
Understand more about user needs
Inform future purchases
Make substitutions (if appropriate)
Measure success of different purchase models

3. During renewals
When developing the collection
When budget is available (or ideally just before)

6. How? JUSP Jisc-funded Journal Usage Statistics Portal
Collects usage data from numerous publishers and aggregators
Enables users to access and analyse data from one portal (and export for further analysis)
Uses consistent data standards (COUNTER-compliant data)
Data checked by machine processes, JUSP team, and users
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7. How?
JUSP for ebooks
BR1 – Number of Successful Title Requests by Month and Title
BR2 – Number of Successful Section Requests by Month and Title
BR3 – Access Denied to Content Items by Month, Title, and Category
Launched in February 2016
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11. How? Library use so far 373 registered users (from 135 libraries)
355 logins to JUSP ebooks service
1159 reports run
BR2 reports most popular book report
Trends over time most popular summary report
111 reports exported
(Figures accurate on 22/06/16)
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12. Challenges Data from aggregators COUNTER-compliance
Fairly early stages of investigation for most libraries

13. Opportunities Additional publishers/aggregators
More standardised data of benefit to all
COUNTER5
Additional analysis reports

14. Contact us
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