During times of economic constraint, accurate and comparable usage reports are essential to fully understand the value of journal subscriptions. Built in response to demand from UK higher education libraries, the Journal Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP) enables librarians to access usage data quickly and efficiently, providing a single point of access for libraries to view, download and analyse their journal usage reports for the publisher deals to which they subscribe.

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2. Session outline
Adding value to JUSP
• Introduction to JUSP
• Live demo
• Future plans
• Q&A

3. • Supports UK academic
libraries by providing a
single point of access to
e-journal usage data
• Assists management of
e-journals
collections, evaluation
and decision-making
• Provides statistics to
ensure the best deals
for the academic
community
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5. • 141 libraries in JUSP
• All UK higher
education institutions
are welcome to
participate
• http://jusp.mimas.ac.
uk/participants.html
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6. How libraries are to JUSP
Adding value using JUSP
• Informing decisions for
substitutions/cancellations
• Collecting data for regular reporting and
decision making
• Assisting academic departments in
understanding resource use
• Making effective use of staff time

7. 19 publishers
• AAAS
• AIP
• Annual Reviews
• BioOne
• BMJ
• EUP
• Elsevier
• Emerald
• Future Medicine
• IOP Publishing
• IOS Press
• Nature Publishing Group
• Oxford University Press
• Project MUSE
• Royal Society of Chemistry
• SAGE
• Springer
• Taylor & Francis
• Wiley-Blackwell
3 intermediaries
• Ebsco EJS
• Publishing Technology
(ingentaconnect)
• Swets
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8. • Standardized Usage
Statistics Harvesting
Initiative (SUSHI)
• M2M way of gathering
statistics
• Replaces the user-
mediated collection of
usage reports
• 12 JUSP SUSHI clients
available
• SUSHI server to gather
data from JUSP
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9. COUNTER usage reports
JR1
• Journal Report 1:
Number of Successful
Full-Text Article
Requests by Month and
Journal
JR1a
• Journal Report 1a:
Number of Successful
Full-Text Article
Requests from an
Archive by Month and
Journal
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10. JUSP report type JUSP report title
Journal level reports • JR1 and JR1A reports
• JR1 reports inc gateways and intermediaries
• JR1 reports excluding backfile usage
Summary reports • SCONUL return
• Summary of publisher usage
• Summary use of gateway and host intermediaries
• Summary use of backfiles
• Tables and graphs
• Which titles have highest use
• Number of titles and requests in usage ranges
Experimental reports • NESLi2 deals
• Titles vs NESLi2 deals
• Individual journal search and usage
• Breakdown of publisher usage (title and
year)(title and date range)

17. HelpingAdding value to JUSP a deal
to judge the value of
JUSP enhancements:
• Adding subscribed or core titles
• What titles are in the deal?

18. Adding subscribed or core titles
Adding subscribed or core titles
• How much are the subscribed titles being
used?
• How much are other titles in the deal being
used?
• Does usage show that the deal offers better
value than individual subscribed titles?

20. What titles are in the deal?
What titles are in the deal?
Accounting for nil usage
• Does the JR1 report contain titles that are not
available in the collection the library
subscribes to?
• Does the JR1 report contain titles that are no
longer part of the current deal e.g. name
changes, publisher changes?

21. How many titles are in the deal?
Project Muse JR1 for 2011 for a library with the
Basic Research Collection–
Titles in the Premium Collection in the JR1 498
Titles in the Basic Research Collection 206
Titles in the JR1 not available to the Library 292
59% of titles in the JR1 are not in the library’s
deal and will show nil use.

22. JUSP enhancements
• Usage patterns of subscribed or core titles
• Identification of titles in the deal or collection
within the JR1 report
• Adding more publishers

23. Future developments
What titles are in the deal?
• Adding more publishers
• Completing work on enhancements
• Continuing to develop JUSP with help from
community
• Sustainability models

24. Support
What titles are in the deal?
We are doing various things to help people use
JUSP more effectively:
• Developing support materials
• Running training events
• Interoperability with other tools

25. What titlesQ&Ain the deal?
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