Transcript Nancy Turner Syracuse University Library ARL Survey

E-Metrics Services and
ARL Statistics
Nancy Turner
Syracuse University Library
ARL Survey Coordinators and SPEC Liaisons
January 19, 2007
Current Standards
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Counter Code of Practice
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International set of standards for vendor recording of
online usage data
Standards available for electronic journals and
databases, e-book standards in development
ARL Supplementary Statistics (05-06) limits reporting
to Counter-compliant figures
SUSHI
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NISO Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting
Initiative
Designed to work in conjunction with Electronic
Resource Management software (ERM)
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ScholarlyStats
MPS Technologies software, now marketed and
sold by EBSCO
Trial conducted at Syracuse in August, 2006
Generates reports for usage of databases and
electronic journals for many Counter-compliant
vendor platforms
http://www.scholarlystats.com
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Statistics collected
from multiple vendors
Delivered to single
portal
May then be passed to
ERM or compiled for
other purposes
Journal Use Reports
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ISI (Thompson Scientific)
Trial conducted at Syracuse in August 2006
Works in conjunction with other ISI Web of
Knowledge (citation analysis) products
http://scientific.thomson.com/webofknowledge/jur
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Journal Use Reports
Journal Citation Reports (three years of citation data that is merged with the data in your
institution's Holdings and Vendor Usage Data files) 2. Web of Science (three years of data,
along with author addresses that are matched against the addresses in your institution's
Profiles) 3. Holdings (your institution's library collection) 4. Vendor Usage Data (your
institution's vendor usage data)
Quick Comparison
ScholarlyStats
Journal Usage Reports
Automated collection
User uploads reports
with provision of access from vendors
info
Journals
and databases
Journals only, profile
(counter-compliant)
uploaded by user
Cost by Platform and
May also require
library type (9,000subscription to Web of
14,000)
Knowledge ($18,000)