The Journal Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP)

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Jo Lambert, Mimas

Libraries in JUSP

• 144 UK libraries in JUSP

• All UK higher education institutions are welcome to participate

• http://jusp.mimas.ac.uk/participants.html

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Publishers and intermediaries in JUSP22 publishers

• AAAS• AIP• Annual Reviews• Berg• BioOne• BMJ• Brill• CUP• EUP• Elsevier• Emerald• Future Medicine• IOP Publishing• IOS Press• Nature Publishing Group• Oxford University Press• Project MUSE• Royal Society of Chemistry• SAGE• Springer• Taylor & Francis• Wiley-Blackwell

3 intermediaries• Ebsco EJS• Publishing Technology (ingentaconnect)• Swets

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How do we collect data?

• Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI)

• M2M way of gathering statistics

• Replaces the user-mediated collection of usage reports

• SUSHI server to gather data from JUSP

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Quality assurance

• COUNTER compliance

• Data is checked at point of aggregation

• Restated data (from publishers) can be addressed globally

• Data anomalies referred back to publishers to be corrected at source

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“We like the fact that with JUSP you know the data is proactively being checked and verified.” University of Birmingham

Quality assurance

Community engagement• Community resource

responding to what people want

• Working closely with libraries to understand how JUSP is being used and how it can help decision-making

• Information sharing and training events

• Developing new reports and features from user feedback

• Quick response rates encourage active user participation

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"Evidence-based library decisions rely on the timely analysis of usage statistics. JUSP has quickly matured into a highly valued service largely due to the team's skill in solving problems and presenting complex data within a clear and well-structured user interface.”

“The project has a real community feel to it, in that it actively responds to user input and I think it is a really good example of collaborative working - something we should be striving towards to avoid us needing to reinvent the wheel! I think the team has worked very well with libraries in seeking their input.”

"The more publishers you can get on board the better! The JUSP portal is already proving to be invaluable to us."

What do users like about JUSP?

“We are now able to provide better intelligence on collection use to subject librarians and we can do that quickly now rather than say “we haven’t got time” or “sorry or it’s too late” and it’s saving us the possibility of renewing things that we shouldn’t.”

Open University

Regular reporting and decision making

“It has also helped us better understand the research profile of our institution which in turn informs decisions over resource allocation. For example, we may have a high profile academic who heavily used a particular resource but the resource had relatively low usage other than this user. If this academic leaves the institution the money for this could be better utilised elsewhere. The data we get from JUSP can help us identify the ever changing research profile of the institution.”

Birkbeck, University of London

Informing resource allocation decisions

“Collating SCONUL stats in the past took several weeks to download data, put into spreadsheets, and collate (sometimes had to request data and wait for it to be done by publisher as not all publishers are instantly presenting their statistics). I would estimate a saving of a third of the time it previously took as approximately a third of our journals for the SCONUL return are in JUSP.”

University of Leicester

Effective use of staff time

“Having this information both the qualitative and the quantitative allows us to make those decisions and react to what the university is doing around us and to the changing complex environment we have got.”

University of Salford

Assisting academic departments

JUSP Use Caseshttp://jusp.mimas.ac.uk/usecases.html