This presentation describes an evidence-based library project in which COUNTER JR2 turnaway data was used to identify desirable online journal backfiles that could be licensed in place of print, which could then be deaccessioned. The presentation shares the Excel-based tools used to identify backfiles for licensing as well as the assessment data from the first year.
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is used for identifying intellectual property in the digital environment. The DOI is like a digital fingerprint: Each article receives a unique one at birth, and it can be used to identify the article throughout its lifespan, no matter where it goes. A DOI should be interpreted as 'digital identifier of an object' rather than 'identifier of a digital object'. A DOI can be assigned to any Object. In this workshop you will learn how to define a DOI, prepare Meta Data, and assign a DOI for a journal paper.
Share Scientific Data to Improve Research Visibility and ImpactNader Ale Ebrahim
Previous studies have found that papers with publicly available datasets receive a higher number of citations than similar studies without available data. In addition, new research has found that by putting your research data online, you’ll become up to 30% more highly cited than if you kept your data hidden. In this workshop I will elaborate the advantages of sharing research data and introduce some relevant “Research Tools” for increasing datasets visibility.
Prepare a Pre-Print, Post-Print of Your Document for Wider Visibility and Inc...Nader Ale Ebrahim
With overwhelming thousands of online journals daily, many scholarly articles simply never reach their intended audience and consequently fail to generate the impact they deserve. Traditionally, scholarly publishers ensured the visibility of an authors’ work by circulating print journals to targeted readers. But fewer people are reading print journals anymore and as content continues to migrate from print to online — how can researchers optimize electronic distribution of content? This presentation, lead you to prepare a pre-print, post-print of your paper/article for online presence, wider visibility, and increase citation.
Should We Expect a Bang or a Whimper? Will Linked Data Revolutionize Scholar Authoring and Workflow Tools?
Jeff Baer, Senior Director of Product Management, Research Development Services, Proquest
The diversity and complexity of contents available on the web have dramatically increased in recent years. Multimedia content such as images, videos, maps, voice recordings has been published more often than before. Document genres have also been diversified, for instance, news, blogs, FAQs, wiki. These diversified information sources are often dealt with in a separated way. For example, in web search, users have to switch between search verticals to access different sources. Recently, there has been a growing interest in finding effective ways to aggregate these information sources so that to hide the complexity of the information spaces to users searching for relevant information. For example, so-called aggregated search investigated by the major search engine companies will provide search results from several sources in a single result page. Aggregation itself is not a new paradigm; for instance, aggregate operators are common in database technology.
This talk presents the challenges faced by the like of web search engines and digital libraries in providing the means to aggregate information from several and complex information spaces in a way that helps users in their information seeking tasks. It also discusses how other disciplines including databases, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science can be brought into building effective and efficient aggregated search systems.
Wrangling metadata from hathi trust and pubmed to provide full text linking t...NASIG
In the January 1994 issue of The Cornell Veterinarian editor Maurice E. White wrote:
THIS is the last issue of "The Cornell Veterinarian". The "Cornell Vet" has a proud history, dating back to June, 1911... (p.1)
This presentation will describe Cornell University Library efforts to provide an "afterlife" to The Cornell Veterinarian by leveraging a number of disparate initiatives and metadata sources. While attempting to build article level linking to full-text in HathiTrust (functionality currently unavailable), limitations in the metadata captured during the scanning process were uncovered. The speaker will delineate these metadata findings and provide strategies (some scalable, others highly labor intensive) for gathering the necessary metadata for creating direct links to articles found in HathiTrust.
Presenter:
Steven Folsom
Cornell University
Steven Folsom is a metadata librarian overseeing the creation and management of metadata for various Cornell University Library digital platforms. He strategizes on the integration of metadata across systems with the ultimate goal of improving discovery and access of information resources.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is used for identifying intellectual property in the digital environment. The DOI is like a digital fingerprint: Each article receives a unique one at birth, and it can be used to identify the article throughout its lifespan, no matter where it goes. A DOI should be interpreted as 'digital identifier of an object' rather than 'identifier of a digital object'. A DOI can be assigned to any Object. In this workshop you will learn how to define a DOI, prepare Meta Data, and assign a DOI for a journal paper.
Share Scientific Data to Improve Research Visibility and ImpactNader Ale Ebrahim
Previous studies have found that papers with publicly available datasets receive a higher number of citations than similar studies without available data. In addition, new research has found that by putting your research data online, you’ll become up to 30% more highly cited than if you kept your data hidden. In this workshop I will elaborate the advantages of sharing research data and introduce some relevant “Research Tools” for increasing datasets visibility.
Prepare a Pre-Print, Post-Print of Your Document for Wider Visibility and Inc...Nader Ale Ebrahim
With overwhelming thousands of online journals daily, many scholarly articles simply never reach their intended audience and consequently fail to generate the impact they deserve. Traditionally, scholarly publishers ensured the visibility of an authors’ work by circulating print journals to targeted readers. But fewer people are reading print journals anymore and as content continues to migrate from print to online — how can researchers optimize electronic distribution of content? This presentation, lead you to prepare a pre-print, post-print of your paper/article for online presence, wider visibility, and increase citation.
Should We Expect a Bang or a Whimper? Will Linked Data Revolutionize Scholar Authoring and Workflow Tools?
Jeff Baer, Senior Director of Product Management, Research Development Services, Proquest
The diversity and complexity of contents available on the web have dramatically increased in recent years. Multimedia content such as images, videos, maps, voice recordings has been published more often than before. Document genres have also been diversified, for instance, news, blogs, FAQs, wiki. These diversified information sources are often dealt with in a separated way. For example, in web search, users have to switch between search verticals to access different sources. Recently, there has been a growing interest in finding effective ways to aggregate these information sources so that to hide the complexity of the information spaces to users searching for relevant information. For example, so-called aggregated search investigated by the major search engine companies will provide search results from several sources in a single result page. Aggregation itself is not a new paradigm; for instance, aggregate operators are common in database technology.
This talk presents the challenges faced by the like of web search engines and digital libraries in providing the means to aggregate information from several and complex information spaces in a way that helps users in their information seeking tasks. It also discusses how other disciplines including databases, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science can be brought into building effective and efficient aggregated search systems.
Wrangling metadata from hathi trust and pubmed to provide full text linking t...NASIG
In the January 1994 issue of The Cornell Veterinarian editor Maurice E. White wrote:
THIS is the last issue of "The Cornell Veterinarian". The "Cornell Vet" has a proud history, dating back to June, 1911... (p.1)
This presentation will describe Cornell University Library efforts to provide an "afterlife" to The Cornell Veterinarian by leveraging a number of disparate initiatives and metadata sources. While attempting to build article level linking to full-text in HathiTrust (functionality currently unavailable), limitations in the metadata captured during the scanning process were uncovered. The speaker will delineate these metadata findings and provide strategies (some scalable, others highly labor intensive) for gathering the necessary metadata for creating direct links to articles found in HathiTrust.
Presenter:
Steven Folsom
Cornell University
Steven Folsom is a metadata librarian overseeing the creation and management of metadata for various Cornell University Library digital platforms. He strategizes on the integration of metadata across systems with the ultimate goal of improving discovery and access of information resources.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Conducting Research: Literature Search to Writing Review Paper, Part 3: Writi...Nader Ale Ebrahim
: “Research Tools” can be defined as vehicles that broadly facilitate research and related activities. “Research Tools” enable researchers to collect, organize, analyze, visualize and publicized research outputs. Dr. Nader has collected over 700 tools that enable students to follow the correct path in research and to ultimately produce high-quality research outputs with more accuracy and efficiency. It is assembled as an interactive Web-based mind map, titled “Research Tools”, which is updated periodically. “Research Tools” consists of a hierarchical set of nodes. It has four main nodes: (1) Searching the literature, (2) Writing a paper, (3) Targeting suitable journals, and (4) Enhancing visibility and impact of the research. In this workshop some tools from the part 2 (Writing a paper) will be described. The e-skills learned from the workshop are useful across various research disciplines and research institutions.
How to Exploring and accessing Knowledge in Research Steps, Explore academic search engines, as well as online databases. Finally, discuss which resources are reliable.
GSmith Springer Nature Data policies and practices: HKU Open Data and Data Pu...GrahamSmith646206
Supporting research data across Springer Nature: joining up policy and practice. Slides from Graham Smith (Research Data Manager, Springer Nature) at HKU Open Data and Data Publishing Seminar, 25th October 2021.
Funding For Research!
Carol Anne Meyer, @meyercarol, who is responsible for Business Development and Marketing at CrossRef describes CrossRef's FundRef funder identification service, which correlates funding organizations with the scholarly articles and other documents that result from their research expenditures The FundRef taxonomy allows researchers to choose from a controlled vocabulary of thousands of funder names when they submit papers for publication. FundRef Search and other tools help funders demonstrate and measure the impact of their activities. CrossRef Member Publishers participating in FundRef will be able serve the author/researcher community by helping them meet their funder compliance and reporting requirements and by displaying funding information through the CrossMark service. Carol will also introduce CrossRef services that allow researchers and publishers to reduce the time and effort necessary to arrange the necessary permissions for text and data mining, She will also explain the relationship between these services and initiatives to increase public access to scholarly content.
Data Publishing Workflows with DataverseMicah Altman
By: Mercè Crosas, Director of Data Science at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University
The Dataverse software provides multiple workflows for data publishing to support a wide range of data policies and practices established by journals, as well as data sharing needs from various research communities. This talk will describe these workflows from the user experience and from the system's technical implementation.
This talk was presented as part of the Information Science Brown Bag talks, hosted by the Program on Information Science. (See http://drmaltman.wordpress.com)
The benefits of using Crossref metadata for libraries and scientists - Crossr...Crossref
Najko Jahn from Göttingen State and University Library presents on the benefits of using Crossref metadata for libraries and scientists. Presented at Crossref LIVE Hannover, June 27th 2018.
Connecting the dots: drug information and Linked DataTomasz Adamusiak
Presented as part of the AMIA2014 Knowledge Representation + Semantics and
Clinical Information Systems Working Groups Pre-Symposium "Drug
Terminology Standards: Meaningful Use and Better Knowledge"
November 16, 2014
Washington, DC
We need to start understanding documents within an electronic machine procesable environment. Such conception goes beyond the PDF and HTML; it entails, I argue, understanding the document as a fluid aggregator.
Conducting Research: Literature Search to Writing Review Paper, Part 3: Writi...Nader Ale Ebrahim
: “Research Tools” can be defined as vehicles that broadly facilitate research and related activities. “Research Tools” enable researchers to collect, organize, analyze, visualize and publicized research outputs. Dr. Nader has collected over 700 tools that enable students to follow the correct path in research and to ultimately produce high-quality research outputs with more accuracy and efficiency. It is assembled as an interactive Web-based mind map, titled “Research Tools”, which is updated periodically. “Research Tools” consists of a hierarchical set of nodes. It has four main nodes: (1) Searching the literature, (2) Writing a paper, (3) Targeting suitable journals, and (4) Enhancing visibility and impact of the research. In this workshop some tools from the part 2 (Writing a paper) will be described. The e-skills learned from the workshop are useful across various research disciplines and research institutions.
How to Exploring and accessing Knowledge in Research Steps, Explore academic search engines, as well as online databases. Finally, discuss which resources are reliable.
GSmith Springer Nature Data policies and practices: HKU Open Data and Data Pu...GrahamSmith646206
Supporting research data across Springer Nature: joining up policy and practice. Slides from Graham Smith (Research Data Manager, Springer Nature) at HKU Open Data and Data Publishing Seminar, 25th October 2021.
Funding For Research!
Carol Anne Meyer, @meyercarol, who is responsible for Business Development and Marketing at CrossRef describes CrossRef's FundRef funder identification service, which correlates funding organizations with the scholarly articles and other documents that result from their research expenditures The FundRef taxonomy allows researchers to choose from a controlled vocabulary of thousands of funder names when they submit papers for publication. FundRef Search and other tools help funders demonstrate and measure the impact of their activities. CrossRef Member Publishers participating in FundRef will be able serve the author/researcher community by helping them meet their funder compliance and reporting requirements and by displaying funding information through the CrossMark service. Carol will also introduce CrossRef services that allow researchers and publishers to reduce the time and effort necessary to arrange the necessary permissions for text and data mining, She will also explain the relationship between these services and initiatives to increase public access to scholarly content.
Data Publishing Workflows with DataverseMicah Altman
By: Mercè Crosas, Director of Data Science at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University
The Dataverse software provides multiple workflows for data publishing to support a wide range of data policies and practices established by journals, as well as data sharing needs from various research communities. This talk will describe these workflows from the user experience and from the system's technical implementation.
This talk was presented as part of the Information Science Brown Bag talks, hosted by the Program on Information Science. (See http://drmaltman.wordpress.com)
The benefits of using Crossref metadata for libraries and scientists - Crossr...Crossref
Najko Jahn from Göttingen State and University Library presents on the benefits of using Crossref metadata for libraries and scientists. Presented at Crossref LIVE Hannover, June 27th 2018.
Connecting the dots: drug information and Linked DataTomasz Adamusiak
Presented as part of the AMIA2014 Knowledge Representation + Semantics and
Clinical Information Systems Working Groups Pre-Symposium "Drug
Terminology Standards: Meaningful Use and Better Knowledge"
November 16, 2014
Washington, DC
We need to start understanding documents within an electronic machine procesable environment. Such conception goes beyond the PDF and HTML; it entails, I argue, understanding the document as a fluid aggregator.
requisiti professionali intermediari assicurativi (obblighi di formazione e a...Salvatore Iannitti
seminario Norton Rose Fulbright del 14 gennaio 2015 in materia di requisiti professionali degli intermediari assicurativi (obblighi di formazione e aggiornamento). Regolamento IVASS n. 6 del 2014
Study of THD in Different CHB MLIs Controlled With Unipolar and Bipolar Carri...Editor IJLRES
Multi-level inverters (MLIs) are gaining popularity due to their inherent advantages like better harmonic distortion, ability of producing higher magnitudes of AC voltages. As these converters uses many cascaded connection of many small units the switches used in devices are subjected to less voltage stresses. H-bridge based multilevel inverter can increase the number of output voltage levels by adding switch components and DC input voltage sources. If it employs seven switches and three DC sources, the number of output voltage levels becomes seven. Although its THD characteristics are improved, it needs output filter to meet general output voltage THD requirement, i.e., 5 % below. By adding PWM switching schemes to the operation of the prior H-bridge switches, it can synthesize more sinusoidal waveform. By this simple alteration in the switching scheme, it can improve the output voltage THD requirement. To verify the high performance of the proposed switching scheme, Unipolar, Bipolar, Third harmonic based Pulse width modulation schemes are considered for analysis and computer-aided simulations are conducted using MATLAB.
It is not new to say that the scholarly communication system is sick. One way to put it is that the publishers have built a paywall around the papers written by our faculty and make us librarians pay for it.
For years, Open Access via the green and gold route have been touted as a joint solution. To this end, as academic librarians, we focused on building institutional repositories and getting open access mandates. However, recently, many prominent members of the open access community have begun to express doubts about the viability of institutional repositories as a solution given the lack of success.
Some, like Stevan Harnad self-dubbed “Open Access Archivangelist” for Green Open access, claim to have given up, while others, like Eric Van de Velde, suggest that we rethink other ways to accomplish Green Open access beyond just institutional repositories. In this webinar, we will summarise all the arguments and attempt to give a librarian’s point of view about the future of IRs.
In 2012, the University of Idaho Library began implementing VIVO, an open-source Semantic Web application, both as a discovery layer for its fledgling institutional repository and as a database to describe, visualize, and report university research activity. The presenters will detail some of the challenges they encountered developing this resource, while discussing the tools and techniques they used for obtaining, editing, and uploading institutional data into the RDF-based VIVO system.
IR Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institutional ...OCLC Research
A view of the research support landscape and RLG partnership activities to help academic librarians provide better services. Given at the Spring CNI briefing in Minneapolis April 6, 2009.
By Ricky Erway, OCLC Research
What infrastructure is necessary for successful research data management (RDM...heila1
RDM life cycle; research data elements in the research life cycle; what is RDM infrastructure; IT infrastructure; Library infrastructure; Research Office infrastructure; Examples of 4 universities RDM service offerings
Environmental Thesauri Under the Lens of Reusability (EGOVIS 2014)Riccardo Albertoni
The development of a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) at
European level is strategic to answer the needs of environmental management requested by the European, national and local policies. Several European projects and initiatives aim to share, integrate and make accessible large amount of environmental data in order to overcome cross-
border/language/cultural barriers. To this purpose, environmental thesauri are used as shared nomenclatures in metadata compilation and information discovery, and they are increasingly made available on the web.
This paper provides a methodological approach for creating a catalogue of the environmental thesauri available on the web and assessing their reusability with respect to domain independent criteria. It highlights critical issues providing some recommendations for improving thesauri reusability.
This presentation gives an overview of the key things that we need to consider before deciding to set up a data repository. It briefly talks about data repository, the software behind data repository and their limitations and merits. Additionally, the presenters shared IFPRI's experiences with Harvard Dataverse.
What ARE we thinking? Collections decisions in an Academic LibraryLinda Galloway
When faced with multiple competing priorities for investment in library resources, there are many important aspects to consider. From student enrollment to prominence of programs, there are both data-driven and intangible factors to weigh. In addition, most library collections now focus on the immediate needs of students and researchers instead of collecting for posterity. This just-in-time versus just-in-case collection development mindset prioritizes different resource attributes and requires an often unfamiliar level of acquisitions flexibility.
Have you ever wondered how search works while visiting an e-commerce site, internal website, or searching through other types of online resources? Look no further than this informative session on the ways that taxonomies help end-users navigate the internet! Hear from taxonomists and other information professionals who have first-hand experience creating and working with taxonomies that aid in navigation, search, and discovery across a range of disciplines.
This presentation by Morris Kleiner (University of Minnesota), was made during the discussion “Competition and Regulation in Professions and Occupations” held at the Working Party No. 2 on Competition and Regulation on 10 June 2024. More papers and presentations on the topic can be found out at oe.cd/crps.
This presentation was uploaded with the author’s consent.
Sharpen existing tools or get a new toolbox? Contemporary cluster initiatives...Orkestra
UIIN Conference, Madrid, 27-29 May 2024
James Wilson, Orkestra and Deusto Business School
Emily Wise, Lund University
Madeline Smith, The Glasgow School of Art
Acorn Recovery: Restore IT infra within minutesIP ServerOne
Introducing Acorn Recovery as a Service, a simple, fast, and secure managed disaster recovery (DRaaS) by IP ServerOne. A DR solution that helps restore your IT infra within minutes.
0x01 - Newton's Third Law: Static vs. Dynamic AbusersOWASP Beja
f you offer a service on the web, odds are that someone will abuse it. Be it an API, a SaaS, a PaaS, or even a static website, someone somewhere will try to figure out a way to use it to their own needs. In this talk we'll compare measures that are effective against static attackers and how to battle a dynamic attacker who adapts to your counter-measures.
About the Speaker
===============
Diogo Sousa, Engineering Manager @ Canonical
An opinionated individual with an interest in cryptography and its intersection with secure software development.
Get 'em in, Get 'em out: Finding a Road from Turnaway Data to Repurposed Space
1. Nikki DeMoville
Electronic Resources Coordinator
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo
Finding a Road from
Turnaway Data to Repurposed
Space
3.
November 2013
Shepley Bulfinch architects hired
5-10 year master space plan
Background
December 2013
Use it or lose it funding mandate
Extra $125,000 for collections
4.
January – April 2014
Planning process mandate:
Clear space in the stacks
Budget process mandate
May 1 deadline for large invoices
Early April: Identify, select, and finalize purchases
May 2014 – June 2014
All ERM and cataloging processes
Withdraw all print
Timeline
5. Short timeline (6 months)
Small staff (green highlighted staff completed project)
Challenges
IRRS @ Kennedy Library (ERM, Cataloging, Acquisitions, and ILL)*
Director, Information Resources & Resource Sharing
Electronic Resources Coordinator
Information Resources Coordinator
Serials Coordinator
Cataloging Specialist
Acquisitions Specialist
Resource Sharing Specialists (2)
+ Reference Specialist (0.5, on loan from Academic Services)
*Kennedy Library is the sole library serving Cal Poly, a master’s university with 20,000 students
6.
Serve multiple goals at once
Spend funds before deadline
On content with proven need
That also let us remove print
Goal 1: Bang for the Buck
7.
Identify what users are trying to access online
We found:
Our users were trying to get to older journal content
Our discovery systems clearly direct users to available
print
BUT Low circulation metrics and high dust levels
show that our users avoid print copies
Solution:
Where turnaways are high, purchase online backfiles
Goal 2: Better Access
8.
Preservation:
Check all withdraw candidates
against WEST
Environment:
Recycle withdrawn volumes
Partnerships:
Backfile purchases support
interlibrary resource sharing
Goal 3: Reduce Impact
9.
Align indexes with online
back-file holdings
Goal 4: Increase Discovery
Image by Chuck Coker,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/caveman_92223/4750606873
11.
Looked at several platforms and publishers
Chose ScienceDirect for content
And Thomson Reuters for indexes
Began gathering as much data as possible
Getting Started
12.
Consistently high usage on our
campus
Significant front-file holdings
made back-file turnaways easy to
identify
No existing back-file licenses
Strong correlation with print
holdings
Clean, easily available usage and
holdings data
Why ScienceDirect?
http://cheezburger.com/423941/winners-of-the-pompous-albert-caption-contest
13.
Source Data
Elsevier Title lists
Back-file prices (packages & individual titles)
Usage data (JR2 Access Denied)
Front-file holdings
Serials Solutions Back-file holdings (non-Elsevier)
Innovative Interfaces
Millennium
Print holdings and circulation data
Thomson Reuters Lists of indexed titles
Western Storage Trust WEST Collection Comparison report
Data Used
18.
Serials Solutions
Knowledgebase, ERM, Summon
MARC records
SFX
Link Resolver
Innovative Interfaces Millennium
Load MARC records
Rapid ILL
Refresh electronic holdings, set flag for lending
Purchase & Activate
19.
Print circulation
Total including in-house
Currency
Dustiness
Preservation
Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST)
Withdraw Factors
20.
Pull from shelves
Suppress & delete print
holdings
WEST offers
Recycle volumes
RapidILL
Refresh print holdings
Withdraw Process
22.
Thomson Reuters Web of Science
Compared title lists
Existing journal back-files
Newly added journal back-files
Discovery – What to add?
23.
Project data:
Title lists from Web of Science
Title lists from ScienceDirect backfiles
Title lists from other back-files (JSTOR, Wiley)
Match on ISSN
Discovery – Closer Look
24. Be careful of duplication
For our grouping of titles, Science Citation Index &
BIOSIS Previews overlapped heavily
Best choices for us, based on match rates:
Science Citation Index – back to 1955
Social Science Citation Index – back to 1956
Zoological Record – back to 1864
Very preliminary assessment: did it work?
Existing back-file use across publishers increased in the
Social Sciences
Existing back-file use across publishers did not increase
in the Sciences
Discovery – What We Learned
25.
Linear feet
replaced by
online backfiles
Space Recaptured
Multi-year, multi-phase project
Most print withdraws for
material already licensed
26.
Space In Transition
Transition collection to
e-preferred
Continue withdraws for
licensed content
Strategic online
replacement
Assess remaining print
27.
Group Study
Space Repurposed - Next
Faculty – Student
Collaboration
Campus
Partners
29.
Quick summary
Usefulness
Our JR2 experience
COUNTER Reports
Illustration from Margarita philosophica, 1503, by Gregor Reisch (d.
1525). Typ 520.03.736, Houghton Library, Harvard University
30.
Basic definition:
All successful full text requests, regardless of year
Useful for:
Simplest measure of total usage
Identify high-use journals
Clues to usage patterns—browsing vs. downloads
Caveats:
Doesn’t separate front- and back-files
COUNTER JR1
31.
Basic definition:
Full text requests from an archive
Useful for:
Separate usage for back-files
Quick usage assessment after back-files are licensed
Caveats:
Older report, optional with COUNTER version 4, may
not be available
Basically replaced by JR5
COUNTER JR1a
32.
Basic definition:
All successful full text requests, broken out
by year of publication
Useful for:
Assessment
Usage patterns
New vs. old – half-life and speed of decline
Trend analysis & projection
COUNTER JR5
33.
Doesn’t measure what you don’t have
Usage for articles > 15 years old often combined
Trend analysis past 15 years becomes problematic
Can help to decide if embargoed access is enough
JR1 HTML-PDF ratio can give context to high counts
for current content
Look for changes to the pattern year-over-year
JR5 Tips
35.
Basic definition:
Access Denied: content item not licensed
ScienceDirect :
When a user tries to access an article or chapter to which
they are not subscribed and which is not accessible
through open access, the user is directed to the abstract
version. (http://usagereports.elsevier.com/Report_Descriptions/COP4%20communication.pdf)
Useful for:
Prediction
Finding out what your users are trying to access
COUNTER JR2
36. Only measures turnaways in the native platform
Does NOT count attempted use through link
resolver
Best suited to large publishers (“destination” sites)
Things to look for:
High usage (JR1 or JR5)
Search stats (DB1) if available
Platform design that drives additional use
JR2 Tips
37.
Conversion to usage
Mean difference across the entire package was -6.6
Median difference across the package was 0
Comparison is for purchased titles, back-files only
Additional 748 turnaways for front-file content in 2014-15
How JR2 Compared to Usage
2014-15
Article Requests
2013-14
Turnaways
39.
Capstone projects, theses, and faculty research can
have a large effect, especially at non-research-
intensive campuses
Expect Fluctuation
2013-14
(Turnaways)
2014-15
(Back-file
Use only)
2013-14 Use
(Front-file
only)
2014-15 Use
(Front-file only)
Journal of Human
Evolution
81 9 158 46
Vaccine 4 14 432 873
40.
JR2 is an indicator of interest that requires low effort by
the user
ILL requires more user effort, so barrier is higher
ILL numbers tend to be very small compared to licensed
use
Owning the content in print mostly prevents ILL requests
JR2 Compared to ILL
2013-14
ILL Requests
2013-14
(Turnaways)
2014-15
(Back-file Use only)
Behavior Therapy 4 58 27
Journal of Dairy Science 0 373 309
Veterinary Parasitology 5 5 9
41.
JR2 can show you content your users want …
… but only if it’s online
JR2 and Print Holdings
Journal of Dairy Science
Print Holdings in open stacks 2001-2009
Print Holdings pageable from storage 1917-2000
Online Holdings 1995-current
Total use of print volumes since 1980s 437
Last recorded use of any print volume Pre-1996
Online use 2013-14 (front-file content) 1,854
Turnaways 2013-14 373
Back-file use 2014-15 309
42.
Current content generates more attention
If back-file content is licensed, remaining turnaways
signal interest in front files
Identifying Potential Subscriptions
Journal of Equine Veterinary Science
May 2013-Apr 2014 (JR5 Use – All) 0
May 2013-Apr 2014 (JR2 Turnaways) 112
May 2014-Mar 2015 (JR5 Use – Only back-files licensed) 66
May 2014-Mar 2015 (JR2 Turnaways – Front-files not licensed) 86
Apr 2015 (JR5 Use – Back-files licensed) 8
Apr 2015 (JR5 Use – Front-files – Subscription begins) 117
43.
The Undocumented Title
Not on any list, not activated anywhere
Used anyway!
Print: not used, layer of dust
Possible of indicator of strength of ScienceDirect
platform
The Access Glitch
Temporary access loss showed up in JR2 reports
Interesting Side Notes
44.
New coverage: 4,568 years across 252 title families
3,300+ uses in the first year
Favorable cost per use
600 linear feet of shelf space recaptured
NO COMPLAINTS!
Final Results
