This document discusses usage statistics and the Journal Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP) project. It provides the following key points: 1) JUSP provides a single access point for usage statistics from multiple publishers, making it easier for libraries to access and analyze usage data. 2) Over 138 UK libraries participate in JUSP, which collects COUNTER-compliant usage reports from 18 publishers. 3) JUSP adds value to the standard COUNTER reports by enhancing data, allowing comparison of usage over time and across publishers, and helping libraries evaluate the value of deals.

1. COUNTER usage statistics:
Measuring the benefits of the big
deals
Angela Conyers
Evidence Base, Research & Evaluation
Birmingham City University

2. Working with usage statistics
2004-5
NESLi2 analysis of usage statistics (JISC)
2006-9
Analysing Publisher Deals (Evidence Base)
2008
Assessing the value of the NESLi2 deals (JISC)
2008-9
Usage Statistics Portal Scoping Study (JISC)
2010 -
JUSP - Journal Usage Statistics Portal (JISC)

3. What do libraries want from
usage data?
• Be sure it is right
• Ready access for reporting
• How well titles in a deal are being used:
– High use, nil and low use
• Usage by subject area
• Analyse trends over time
• Evidence of value for money

4. JUSP Purpose and benefits
• Single point of access to
usage data from multiple
publishers
• No need to visit
separate publisher sites
to download usage
statistics
• Usage comparison
across publishers and
years
• Establishing value for
money
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6. A collaborative project

7. 138 UK higher
education and
research council
libraries are in JUSP
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8. 18 publishers Nature Publishing Group
American Association for the Oxford University Press
Advancement of Science Project MUSE
American Institute of Physics Royal Society of Chemistry
Annual Reviews SAGE
BioOne Springer
British Medical Journal Taylor & Francis
Publishing Group Wiley-Blackwell
Edinburgh University Press 3 intermediaries
Elsevier
Ebsco EJS
Emerald
Publishing Technology
Future Medicine (ingentaconnect)
Institute of Physics Swets

9. COUNTER usage reports
JR1
• Journal Report 1:
Number of Successful
Full-Text Article
Requests by Month and
Journal
JR1a
• Journal Report 1a:
Number of Successful
Full-Text Article
Requests from an
Archive by Month and
Journal
/
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10. • Standardized Usage
Statistics Harvesting
Initiative (SUSHI)
• M2M way of gathering
statistics
• Replaces the user-
mediated collection of
usage reports
• 12 JUSP SUSHI clients
available
• SUSHI server to gather
data from JUSP
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11. Making sure it is right
• Data is quality checked
• Full usage reports are given:
– JR1 and JR1a usage reports from publishers
– Addition of usage from intermediaries/gateways
– Separation of JR1A archive use from use of
current deal

13. Adding value to the JR1
• Titles with the highest use from one publisher
or all publishers in JUSP
• Titles in various usage ranges, from nil and low
to very high
• Search facility – title or ISSN or keyword
• Trends over time (2009- )
• Comparing usage of different publishers
• Assisting with the SCONUL return

15. HelpingAdding value to JUSP a deal
to judge the value of
JUSP enhancements:
• Adding subscribed or core titles
• What titles are in the deal?

16. Adding subscribed or core titles
Adding subscribed or core titles
• How much are the subscribed titles being
used?
• How much are other titles in the deal being
used?
• Does usage show that the deal offers better
value than individual subscribed titles?

18. What titles are in the deal?
What titles are in the deal?
Accounting for nil usage
• Does the JR1 report contain titles that are not
available in the collection the library
subscribes to?
• Does the JR1 report contain titles that are no
longer part of the current deal e.g. name
changes, publisher changes?

19. How many titles are in the deal?
Project Muse JR1 for 2011 for a library with the
Basic Research Collection–
Titles in the Premium Collection in the JR1 498
Titles in the Basic Research Collection 206
Titles in the JR1 not available to the Library 292
59% of titles in the JR1 are not in the library’s
deal and will show nil use.

20. JUSP enhancements
• Usage patterns of subscribed or core titles
• Identification of titles in the deal or collection
within the JR1 report
• Adding more publishers

21. Measuring costs
Cost per download
• All titles
• Subscribed titles
• Non-subscribed titles
Cost per title
• All titles in the JR1
• All titles in the deal/collection taken
• Subscribed titles
• Non-subscribed titles

22. angela.conyers@bcu.ac.uk
www.jusp.mimas.ac.uk