JUSP aiming further for further education
29 March 2022

What we will cover
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Outline
1. Overview of JUSP: What JUSP does (and doesn’t) do
2. Quick recap of JUSP and COUNTER jargon
3. Update on what is happening in JUSP
4. Live demo
5. What is happening in JUSP
6. Your questions

Overview of JUSP
What JUSP does (and doesn’t) do

What is JUSP?
• JUSP is a service that collects journal, book, database, and platform usage reports on behalf of
Jisc members
• JUSP supports librarians and LRC managers by providing a single point of access to usage
from a range of publishers and suppliers
• Began in 2010 and originally JUSP stood for Journal Usage Statistics Portal
• JUSP works with COUNTER compliant data
• JUSP collects and aggregates data to help you report and analyse
• With JUSP being a single source to refer to it helps with the burden of data collection
• Assists management of e-resources
• Now has over 120 FE participants

Regular reporting Collects data for regular reporting (both
internal and external)
Informing decisions Helps inform decisions for
renewals/substitutions/cancellations
Evaluation
Assists in understanding e-resource usage
Packages or individual purchases
Value and impact
Promotes the library/resource centre
Makes effective use of staff time
What JUSP does do

What JUSP doesn’t do
Provide cost
information
Collect data for
non-COUNTER
compliant
publishers
Subject or
curriculum
information
Tell you who is
viewing the data

Quick recap of JUSP and COUNTER jargon
Release 5 (R5) and Release 4 (R4)

“Master reports” and “Standard views”
• Large, very detailed, flexible
• Versions JUSP collects
• Examples: TR, PR, DR
Master
reports
• Pre-set and defined by COUNTER
• Still detailed and require some manipulation
• Examples: TR_J1
Standard
views
• Alternative presentations of the data
• Usually simplified or combine in some way
• User friendly
“JUSP” or
“Custom”
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Tip: Make use of “JUSP” reports and visualisations and
don’t worry about the COUNTER ones.

“Requests”
• When someone “requests” to download or view content
• 3 flavours
• Total Item Requests (total number of parts e.g. journal articles and book chapters)
• Unique Item Requests (de-duplicates when same user uses same item in same session)
• Unique Title Requests (books only – when someone downloads lots of parts, only counted once)
• Video guide
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Tip: When in doubt select “Total Item Requests” and think about as
“number of times a part of book or journal has been viewed/downloaded”

“Controlled” and “OA_Gold”
• OA_Gold = Gold Open Access (GOA)
• OA_Gold = item “pay to publish”
• OA_Gold ≠ free
• Controlled = basically everything else
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Tips:
• To get an overall picture of total usage,
select both
• When evaluating value for money for
journal subscriptions, select Controlled only

JUSP update – March 2022
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Recent
• Updated welcome and admin pages
• New “How do I” page
• New user group
In
progress
• Reports by email
• Website content and organisation changes
• Additional guides for FE
Future
• Item level reporting
• Title flagging
• Report enhancements
Collects COUNTER usage stats and pulls together in a single interface

Demo
Navigating JUSP and choosing the right report or visualisation

Questions
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Contact us
Email help@jisc.ac.uk
Mention JUSP in the subject line