1. Electronic journal usage statistics Tony Kidd Glasgow University Library [t.kidd@lib.gla.ac.uk] Present practice and future progress

2. Statistics in Practice, IFLA Satellite Conference, Loughborough, 13-15 August 2002 2 Importance of usage statistics Provision and use Expenditure on e-journals Marketing Budget allocation

3. Statistics in Practice, IFLA Satellite Conference, Loughborough, 13-15 August 2002 3 Provision of e-journals E-journals at Glasgow Univ Library 362 – 1997362 740 – 1998740 1545 – 19991545 3018 – 20003018 4507 – 20014507 5526 – 20025526

4. Statistics in Practice, IFLA Satellite Conference, Loughborough, 13-15 August 2002 4 Expenditure on e-journals 2000/01 Glasgow expenditure (SCONUL) – Print serials473000 – Online serials70000 – Print+online serials 715000 – Online databases274000 – Print etc books709000 – Online books87000 – Document delivery86000 Total2414000

5. Statistics in Practice, IFLA Satellite Conference, Loughborough, 13-15 August 2002 5 Expenditure on e-journals Some percentages – Online serials/All serials5.5% – Online (incl print)/All serials62.4% – Doc del/All serials6.8% – Online books/All books10.9% – All online/All materials47.5%

6. Statistics in Practice, IFLA Satellite Conference, Loughborough, 13-15 August 2002 6 Marketing of e-journals Target low-use departments Varying use of journals Benchmarking High use encourages more funding?

7. Statistics in Practice, IFLA Satellite Conference, Loughborough, 13-15 August 2002 7 Budget allocation Formula: 5.5% Internal measurement: sampling Local cache Non-Faculty based access Imprecise measurement

8. Statistics in Practice, IFLA Satellite Conference, Loughborough, 13-15 August 2002 8 Budget allocation Computing Service statistics at Glasgow UL – Clin Medicine26.7% – Biomed & Life Sci22.3% – Physical Sci5.2% – Vet Medicine5.0% – Engineering3.5% – Soc Sci2.0% – Dental1.8% – Law/Financial1.8% – Arts1.4% – Comp/Math Sci1.1% – Education0.1% – Other28.5%

9. Statistics in Practice, IFLA Satellite Conference, Loughborough, 13-15 August 2002 9 External v internal Internal web pages Double effort Direct access Access via links

10. Statistics in Practice, IFLA Satellite Conference, Loughborough, 13-15 August 2002 10 External usage statistics Available from most large publishers ICOLC Guidelines for statistical measures of usage of web-based information resources BUT… BUT… – Inconsistent – Different formats – Different timetables – Different definitions

11. Statistics in Practice, IFLA Satellite Conference, Loughborough, 13-15 August 2002 11 External usage statistics Source – Publisher – Gateway – Aggregator Browse or search? Linking

12. Statistics in Practice, IFLA Satellite Conference, Loughborough, 13-15 August 2002 12 Possible solutions PALS usage statistics working group ARL E-metrics project ICOLC Guidelines National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) Electronic access and use related measures NISO – revision of Z39.7 (Library Statistics) ISO – revision of 2789 (library statistics) and 11563 (library performance measures)

13. Statistics in Practice, IFLA Satellite Conference, Loughborough, 13-15 August 2002 13 COUNTER http://www.projectCounter.org/

14. Statistics in Practice, IFLA Satellite Conference, Loughborough, 13-15 August 2002 14 COUNTER – Endorsed by AAP, Association of American Publishers ALPSP, The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers ARL, Association of Research Libraries ASA, Association of Subscription Agents and Intermediaries BIC/EDItEUR JISC, Joint Information Systems Committee NCLIS, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science NISO, National Information Standards Organization PA, The Publishers Association STM, International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers UKSG, United Kingdom Serials Group

15. Statistics in Practice, IFLA Satellite Conference, Loughborough, 13-15 August 2002 15 COUNTER structure Chair: Richard Gedye, Oxford University Press rgedye@projectCounter.org Project Director: Peter Shepherd pshepherd@projectCounter.org Steering Group – c30 members – endorsing organisations – librarians – publishers & intermediaries Task forces

16. Statistics in Practice, IFLA Satellite Conference, Loughborough, 13-15 August 2002 16 COUNTER Code of Practice Release 1 by end-2002 Usage reports – Librarians’ survey – Closing date 15 August http://www.projectCounter.org/ Definitions Technical measurement considerations

17. Statistics in Practice, IFLA Satellite Conference, Loughborough, 13-15 August 2002 17 COUNTER – 2003 onwards Code revision, compatible with previous releases Levels of compliance Monitoring/audit But most important Adoption/implementation… of a single code