1. Getting to grips with JUSP
London
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2. Welcome
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3. What we’ll cover this morning
»Introductions
»What is JUSP?
»JUSP journal data
»Tour and demo of JUSP for journals
»Hands-on activities
»Examples of how libraries use the data
»Close of morning session
Morning session
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4. Introductions
»Name
»Organisation
»What would you like to get out of today?
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5. Introduction to JUSP for journals
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6. What is JUSP?
The Journal Usage Statistics Portal provides a FREE “one stop shop”
for libraries to access and download usage statistics from a wide
range of journal publishers.
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7. How it all started …
»Interest in a one stop shop for COUNTER journal reports
dates back to studies carried out in 2005 and before
»Jisc Collections commissioned various parties to develop a
demonstrator/prototype service for a small subset of
publishers (Elsevier, Springer, OUP) and 5 libraries
»JUSP was launched into service in early 2010 and has
rapidly expanded ever since
»E-books were added in February 2016
»Additional reports JR2/JR5 added mid 2016
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8. Who provides JUSP?
»Jisc (formerly staff atThe University of Manchester) – day
to day running, data collection, database admin, support,
website, technical development
»Jisc Collections – publisher agreements
»Evidence Base – user evaluation, surveys and support
»Cranfield University – technical development (SUSHI)
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9. What does JUSP contain - journals?
»COUNTER journal reports for 80 publishers and several
intermediaries
»Data back to January 2009 where available
»Expanding publisher list
»Around 360 million individual data entries
»Data for more than 200 institutions
»Title lists and deal information
»Over 30 reports, charts and tables providing access to the
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10. What JUSP does NOT contain
»Database reports … BUT!
»Cost information
»Article level stats
»Unchecked data!!!
»Data for non COUNTER compliant publishers
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11. Reports and features
»journal level reports, including JR1; gateway data; JR1
minus JR1a and JR1 GOA; journal search; JR2; JR5
»summary reports, including SCONUL; top titles;
breakdown of usage by date range and publisher;
academic and publisher year data; trends over time
»titles and deals reports including titles v deals; title lists;
comparison of deals
»Usage profiling reports – compare your site with others in
your Jisc band / peer groups / region / consortium
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12. How we work with the data
»SUSHI – Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting
Initiative: machine to machine
»We collect approximately 10,000 reports per month
»Backdata / new publishers or sites / missing accounts /
restated data
»Every report undergoes visual checks, plus automated
checking software runs 20 tests prior to loading
»Any missing data or global errors reported to publishers
»No reports added unless we’re happy!!!
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13. Benefits for libraries - 1
»One account not dozens
»All report gathering done centrally
»All data verified prior to loading
»Costs/time savings
»Reports and data presentation save a lot of time
»New reports take effort out of calculations
»Restated data
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14. Benefits for libraries - 2
»Help with SCONUL return
»Usage profiling and peer group comparisons
»“Core” title tracking / ad hoc reports
»Export reports and data in various ways
»Designed for and by the library community
»More clout with publishers over issues
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15. Training and support
»Bespoke training alongside standard courses
»Online FAQs and getting started materials
»Guides to all reports
»Dozens of webinars and online demonstrations –
recordings available
»Papers, presentations, event slides and recordings
»Full support service by email helpdesk: jusp@jisc.ac.uk
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16. Interoperability
»Other usage stats packages e.g. Ustat / ALMA /
Millennium / Serials Solutions 360 COUNTER
»KB+ http://www.kbplus.ac.uk
»SUNCAT / other
»Jisc LSS project development
»JUSP offers a SUSHI server for exporting data
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17. Continuing development
»JUSP is under continual development with many new
features planned for 2017/18
»… see later!
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18. Demo of JUSP for journals
https://jusp.jisc.ac.uk
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19. Break
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20. Practice
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21. Exercises
1. Evidence for journal substitutions - looking at how you
could use JUSP to review core subscriptions within a
publisher package
2. Identifying titles for subscription or purchase –
focusing on the JR2 but also looking atJR1
3. An overview of usage for a publisher – using a variety
of reports to get a full picture of usage for a publisher
package
Topics
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22. Feedback
Which reports do you think are
most useful?
What have you learnt?
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23. How are libraries using JUSP
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24. Using journal usage data
»Informing renewal decisions
»Regular reporting (including SCONUL)
»Reporting to management
»Ad hoc requests
»Responding to enquires
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25. DMU ScienceDirect
»Subscribed v Non- subscribed titles identified by KB+
»Combine JR1 from JUSP and journal list prices from
Elsevier
»Shared with subject libraries for evaluation
»http://mitchley.our.dmu.ac.uk/2017/04/11/using-jusp-
counter-jr1-usage-data-to-review-dmu-librarys-
sciencedirect-journal-titles/
Identifying substitutions
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26. Dashboards and KPIs
»Bar chart showing usage in
previous and current year to
date
»Part of a library dashboard for
management
»“What I get out of JUSP covers
about 80% of our e-journal
usage and only takes half a
minute”
University of Edinburgh
»Overview of key trends at
collection level
»“We also use JUSP’s ‘Titles with
the highest use’ report
(academic year) in conjunction
with reports from EBSCO, to
generate a list of the most
heavily used titles”
Leeds Beckett University
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27. Lunch
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28. Welcome (back)
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29. What we’ll cover this afternoon
»JUSP book data
»How are libraries using book usage data? What are the
challenges?
»Demo of JUSP for books
»Hands-on activities
»Future developments
Afternoon session
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30. What does JUSP contain? - ebooks
»COUNTER book reports for 18 publishers
»Data back to January 2014 where available
»Expanding publisher list
»Data for more than 200 institutions
»A number of reports, charts and tables providing access to
the data in growing range of forms.
Book portal went live in February 2016.
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31. ebooks - Reports
»BR1 – successful title requests by month and title
»BR2 – successful section requests by month and title
»BR3 – access denials, by month, title and category
»Top titles (calendar and academic years)
»Trends over time
»SCONUL returns
Note: no BR1 data currently in JUSP
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32. ebooks – Current Publishers
»ACS
»ASCE
»BioOne
»Elsevier
»Emerald
»Future Medicine
»ICE
»IEEE
»IOP
»OUP
»Project MUSE
»RSC
»SIAM
»Springer
»T&F (encyclopedias only)
»Thieme
»Wageningen
»Wiley
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33. ebooks – Aggregators under development
»Askews & Holts
»CREDO Reference
»EBSCOhost
»ProQuest
Combined report with data from publishers probably not
possible due to lack of common identifiers.
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34. How we work with the data
»SUSHI – Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting
Initiative: machine to machine
»We collect approximately 4,000 reports per month
»Backdata / new publishers or sites / missing accounts /
restated data
»Every report undergoes visual checks, plus automated
checking software runs 20 tests prior to loading
»Any missing data or global errors reported to publishers
»No reports added unless we’re happy!!!
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35. Benefits for libraries
»One account not dozens
»All report gathering done centrally
»All data verified prior to loading
»Costs/time savings
»New reports take effort out of calculations
»Restated data
»Designed for and by the library community
»More clout with publishers over issues
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36. How are libraries using book data?
Laura
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37. Uses of book usage data
Reporting
• Management
• Subject and liaison
librarians
• academics
• SCONUL
Collection
development
decisions
• Policy decisions
• Subscription
renewals
Identifying titles for
purchase
• BR3
• Single/multi-user
• Extra ‘copies’
• New titles and
packages
Providing evidence to
support purchasing
models
• Individual titles
• PDA/DDA
• EBA
Promotion and
awareness
• Low use titles
• Value
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38. Challenges for libraries
E-book usage discussion
forum - July 2016
Report available:
http://jusp.jisc.ac.uk/news/JUSP-ebook-
discussion-forum-report-20160714.pdf
E-books usage statistics
research project
Report expected soon
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Lack of
common
identifiers
Lack of
accurate title
lists
Inconsistencies
in measuring
‘use’
Time
consuming and
inefficient

39. BR3
»Check for new editions of
books that publishers
»Published sometimes replace
editions and users linked
through to content they can’t
access
Kings College London
»Adding titles to wish list
»Previously purchased vol. 1,
but noticed turnaways on vol.
2
»monitored over a couple of
years, considered as part of
wider acquisition
The Open University
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40. Comparing purchasing models
»Rather than relying on a single count, used a range of
metrics to provide a fuller picture
› number of titles purchases and accessed
› total usage, usage ranges, cost and averages
»One off exercise – a lot of work!
»Evidence to support future acquisitions
The Open University
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41. Demo of JUSP for books
https://jusp.jisc.ac.uk
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42. 1. Checking for available data – find out what is cover
2. Reporting – using summary reports to show high level
usage
3. Identifying additional purchases – using data to
inform decisions
4. Reviewing e-book subscriptions – e-book data as part
of renewals process
Exercises
Using book usage reports
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43. Exercise feedback
Which reports do you think are
most useful?
What have you learnt from doing
these exercises?
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44. Future developments
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45. Future developments
»More publishers (ongoing)
»Books: BR1 and aggregators (in progress)
»Platform, database and multimedia reports (Q3 2017)
»Tableau visualisations (imminent!!)
»COUNTER 5 (pilot 2017, service ?)
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46. Action plan
Write down one thing you will do following this session
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47. What next?
»Feedback form
»Presentation, exercises and answers will be added to the
website
»JUSP libraries mailing list
»Check your available data
»Any questions or issues, please contact the helpdesk:
jusp@jisc.ac.uk
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