PaperStats from Pubget:A Consortial Usage Stats Service

Rick Burke, SCELCALCTS

New Orleans, LAJune 25, 2011

What is SCELCThe Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium

We serve 111 private academic and nonprofit research libraries throughout the state, plus one in Nevada and three in Texas

Our primary activity has been negotiating offers for electronic resources and related services for our member libraries

We are an opt-in consortium, and we license over 2400 different products

80% of SCELC are schools <2000 FTE, so the small school market is key

Why Usage Stats?As a nonprofit entity, SCELC needs to provide

valuable services to its members that go beyond the core “buying club” activity

Given that the acquisition of e-resources is core to our mission, there was an evident need to help libraries track usage and analyze costs

Existing tools were either too expensive or inadequate to meet the needs of many libraries

Why PaperStats?Pubget, as a discovery tool, started its services

by automating full text article retrieval for end users

Pubget extended its services to automate the serials management and stats analysis process for libraries

This automated login process lends itself to retrieving usage stats quickly and efficiently

Add to this an analysis tool that breaks down the retrieved statistics into meaningful data

SCELC and PaperStatsSCELC worked with Pubget to build on their

automated login technology to create a consortial portal

The consortial version uses institutional identifiers and a single master password to retrieve statistics for every SCELC member

Libraries can go to the portal to retrieve their statistics for the publishers currently covered by PaperStats

SCELC can obtain a consortial view of usage

Without PaperStatsLibrary staff have to gather statistics manually from

many different publishers

Each publisher has Different formats for data and delivery Different access methods Different availability dates

Cost statistics need to be calculated separately

Data needs to be cleaned up and aggregated manually

This can be a labor-intensive and cumbersome process prone to data loss and errors

AutomationPaperStats automates this process

We provide SCELC and COUNTER R3 passwordsPubget interacts with the publishers’ admin data

to retrieve the dataConsortial version includes automated import of

data from consortially-licensed resourcesPubget returns usage reports to the librarianAccess is fast and always available

No need to aggregate data and send it elsewhere for reporting and analysis

Consortial EnhancementsSCELC can track stats for each member

Automated import of consortia stats

Can retrieve data across a series of dates, e.g. a period of months

Member logins are pre-populated

The library can access all COUNTER compliant usage stats across their serials holdings

The library can obtain a top level view of their most and least-viewed publishers and titles

Negotiate More EffectivelyWith COUNTER-compliant costs-per-view in

hand, negotiate with publishers to realize more realistic cost models

Uncover previously hidden cost information

Utilize consortium-wide data to negotiate optimal terms for the group as a whole

Obtain a better understanding of our consortium members’ usage patterns and collection needs

SCELC BenefitsMember-level statistics for e-journal packages

are automatically collected

Libraries pay a very modest fee to access usage data & analysis tools for their SCELC packages

Libraries have the option to license PaperStats individually to add non-SCELC (locally-licensed) packages

Consortia-wide data readily available to the whole group for analysis and reporting

Publishers Covered by SCELC PaperStats

ACS

Cambridge Univ Press

EBSCOHost

Elsevier ScienceDirect

Emerald

Gale

Nature Publishing Group

Palgrave Macmillan

Springer (Metapress)

Wiley

Forthcoming Coverage(By September 2011)

Atypon Link

BioOne

Highwire Press

H.W. Wilson (now EBSCO)

JSTOR

OCLC FirstSearch

Oxford Univ Press

Project Muse

ProQuest

SAGE Publications

Univ of Chicago Press

Slicing and Dicing…ACS

Single Consortia-levelpassword

Automatic Harvestingfor ALL members

Breadth of package use

For whole consortium or individual members

Full list & Supporting Raw reports downloadable from same screen

Does this institution need the package?

What about this one?

Or this one?

Cost analysis (coming soon at the consortial level)

• Can I save money by dropping journals?– Cost analysis: Highest cost per view journals

• Can I save money by adding journals?– Cost analysis: PPV vs Subscription

• Is this bundle saving me money?– Cost analysis: Bundle vs Journal

Contact Information

Rick Burkerburke@scelc.org

Jason Pricejprice@scelc.org

http://scelc.org