Alison Brock's presentation on Open University's use of JUSP.

1. Using JUSP to aid the NESLi2
journals renewals process
Alison Brock 19th April 2012

2. Process in 2011
• Collect JR1 and JR1A usage figures from individual
NESLi2 publishers websites for 2010
• Create Excel spreadsheet for each NESLi2 publisher
• Add title cost from publishers websites/NESLi2 or our
own records
• Calculate cost per use
• Add details of faculty to each subscribed title
• Discussed with faculty representatives and titles then
flagged for swaps or, if possible, cancellations

3. Issues with old process
• Getting figures from publisher websites was time
consuming
• Different output formats for each publisher
• Occasionally spotted errors in figures long after they had
been collected
• Whole process was long-winded
• Sometimes didn’t have time to collect data before
decision needed to be made

4. Process in 2012 – Step 1
• Collect JR1 and JR1A reports from JUSP for calendar
year 2011

6. Process in 2012 – Step 2
• Export JR1 and JR1A Reports for each NESLi2
publisher to Excel
• Sort by total use (high to low)

8. Process in 2012 – Step 3
• Remove monthly columns and others not required
• Add in cost data
• Calculate cost per use
• Highlight titles
– High use non-subscribed PINK
– Low use subscribed ([core] in front of title) GREEN

11. Process in 2012 – Step 4
• Add details of faculty to each subscribed [core] title
• Recommend swaps or, if possible, cancellations to
faculty representatives
• Collate information ready for journals renewals in 2013

12. Benefits of new process
• All outputs should be the same for each publisher
• Easier to collate and compare information
• JUSP processes ensure the data should be reliable

13. Issues with new process
• Need to have added information on subscribed [core]
subscriptions beforehand
• Could subscription agents/publishers have a role
here in telling JUSP what we subscribe to?
• Need to add price information
• Potentially possible to add this to JUSP?
• Need to calculate cost per use
• Could do this if price information was available?

14. Alison Brock, eResources Advisor
Library Services
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
www.open.ac.uk