Presented at a. UKSG seminar Usage Data for Decision Making 30 November 2023

1. Role of JUSP in gathering usage statistics
and informing decision making
30 November 2022
Laura Wong

2. Outline
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1. Quick overview of JUSP
•What is JUSP?
•How work with data
•What JUSP does and doesn’t do
2. Examples
•What to keep
•Where to invest
•When to act
3. Usage stats and Open Access

3. What is JUSP?
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JUSP is a managed service that collects COUNTER
usage reports on behalf of libraries
Started in 2010 as the Journal Usage Statistics Portal
with a higher education and Jisc agreement focus
View usage statistics at the journal, book, database,
and platform level
Reduces the burden of data collection and collation so
that libraries can focus on reporting and analysis

4. How JUSP works
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• Over 100 suppliers or platforms:
https://jusp.jisc.ac.uk/participants/
• Using SUSHI
• Quality assurance: inspect reports and
resolve issues
Monthly data
collection
• Libraries access via an online portal
• Email delivery
• Harvest into library systems via SUSHI
Reports and
visualisations • Data restatement
• Liaising over data queries and issues
• Filling gaps
• Platform changes
Ongoing
maintenance

5. Regular reporting Gather stats for regular reporting (both internal and external)
Evaluation
Assists in understanding e-resource usage
Packages or individual purchases
Informing decisions
Helps inform collection management decisions
Renewals, substitutions, cancellations, purchases
Strategy
Value and impact
Promotes the libraries
Makes effective use of staff time
What does it help libraries do?
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6. What’s not in JUSP
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•Cost information
•Non-COUNTER compliant stats
•Subject or curriculum information
•Who is viewing the content

7. Examples
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•What to keep
•Where to invest
•When to act

8. What to keep

9. Re-arranged TR_J1
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JUSP “customised” standard view – same stats, different layout
Totals table
Compare and sort
Export

10. “Subscribed” usage
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“Frontfile” only Include 1995 onwards only
Shows “frontfile” total
excluding OA

11. Individual title report
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All stats about a title in one place
How is this title
used across
platforms?
Detailed monthly
breakdown
Annual trends
All metrics

12. Where to invest

13. TR: Top titles (No_licence)
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Cross platform

14. Usage by publication year
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15. When to act

16. Usage profiling
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Is our usage unusual
or normal?

17. High level usage trends
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How are trends in
book usage changing
over time?
High level trends

18. Links and further resources
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•Choosing which R5 report to run: https://jusp.jisc.ac.uk/guides/r5-choosing.html
•Case studies: https://jusp.jisc.ac.uk/case-studies/
•Webinars: https://jusp.jisc.ac.uk/events-training/

19. Usage stats and Open Access
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•Transitional agreements “Read & Publish”, fully OA deals, OA
monographs
•Data analysis to support Jisc licensing and evaluation
•COUNTER Item Reports
•Global usage stats?
•Interviews

20. Summary
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•Pulls usage stats together
•Reduces the burden of data collection and collation
•Flexible reporting tools to support ongoing analysis

21. Questions