Are your ebooks being used? CILIP Conference 2016 Jo Alcock Do you currently track usage of ebooks? Do you track usage of print books? Do you track usage of print or electronic journals?
Ensure value for money Understand more about user needs Inform future purchases Make substitutions (if appropriate) Measure success of different purchase models
During renewals When developing the collection When budget is available (or ideally just before)
How? JUSP Jisc-funded Journal Usage Statistics Portal Collects usage data from numerous publishers and aggregators Enables users to access and analyse data from one portal (and export for further analysis) Uses consistent data standards (COUNTER-compliant data) Data checked by machine processes, JUSP team, and users 20/11/2018
How? JUSP for ebooks BR1 – Number of Successful Title Requests by Month and Title BR2 – Number of Successful Section Requests by Month and Title BR3 – Access Denied to Content Items by Month, Title, and Category Launched in February 2016 20/11/2018
How? Library use so far 373 registered users (from 135 libraries) 355 logins to JUSP ebooks service 1159 reports run BR2 reports most popular book report Trends over time most popular summary report 111 reports exported (Figures accurate on 22/06/16) 20/11/2018
Challenges Data from aggregators COUNTER-compliance Fairly early stages of investigation for most libraries
Opportunities Additional publishers/aggregators More standardised data of benefit to all COUNTER5 Additional analysis reports
Contact us http://jusp.mimas.ac.uk jusp@jisc.ac.uk 20/11/2018