Informed decisions for Selection Support in Libraries

20th Pan-helenic Conference of Academic Libraries

Thessaloniki, 14/11/2011

Núria Sauri
Electronic Products Manager, Swets
What is the value of usage statistics?

Usage stats are a key decision making tool

and becoming more important

 To measure value for money (cost per click)

 To inform purchase decisions
 To justify budgets to organization
 To charge back to staff or faculties
 To identify training issues
 To identify licensing issues
 To understand user behavior and trends
How to make fact-based decision about renewal?

Usage Price per Usage

The Access &

Acquisition
We have to Librarian Usage statistics
download usage and price
statistics per information per
publisher journal or database
are separated

No industry
standard available The Subject
Librarian No pre-populated
to calculate price
solution to maintain
per use for
usage and price
journals and
information to
databases Usage statistics create customized
and price reports
information do not
cover all the
journals
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 Wishlist for supporting renewal decisions

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industrial standard and/or from reliable Ready made reports with your own data
enable comparison support informed collection decision
source

No other alternatives when usage and price

SJR Impact Factor
information is missing
The ideal decision support solution…

All acquisition and

Subscription platform
Management information Many e-Resource
System platforms
ILS, ERM

Comprehensive
Resource Resource Cost Usage
Cost and Usage Statistics
Analysis
Our solution

 Offers the unique advantage that data comes pre-populated

within the tool and can be customized specifically to
your organization

 Integrates usage statistics and pre-populated

subscription holdings information into one
easy-to-manage platform

 Delivers the most important and reliable

information necessary to determine the inherent
value of your collection directly

 Creates usage, price and price-per-use reports

all through a single interface
Usage Price per Usage

 Consolidated
No other alternatives when usage and price  18,000+ titles from 3100
information is missing publishers
SJR Impact Factor  Alternative when usage is
missing
Detailed overview for each title

Eight fields to classify a

title, including subject (LC)
and an “comment” field.

Expand to see impact factor

in both tabulate and chart
format when available.

List of the collection

platforms on which you have
access to this title and price
and usage figures.
Check & Update price details

See what subscriptions

you have for a title, the
SwetsWise reference
number and price

Not accurate? Just add a new

supplier and price!
Packages

Create packages of publications

and view the total price and
usage for the package
 Your collection platforms

Selection Support features an overview of the collection platforms selected for

automatic collection, and the various reports that are available

Click on a platform title to enter you login information –

Selection Support needs it in order to retrieve your
usage data!
 Automated collection platforms

Selection Support supports about 70 automated collection platforms. The usages

are delivered twice a month with 2 – 4 weeks delay.

Indicator for the

availability
status of all you
automated
usage collection
by platforms
Third step: Create reports!

Now you can

choose from four
different
categories of
reports – and
create your own
custom reports!

Check out the

cool online
charts made
with the latest
technology with
secure data
transfer, nice color
schema, interactive
interface and no
extra plug-in
needed.
 Report examples:
Chart
Report Title: Title:per
Price Total
usemonthly
Reportusage over years
(SwetsWise Selection Support)
Report Title:
Report Description: Number
Chart Description:
Title level,of
Monthly Full Text
usage
sorted Article
on(last Requests
5 years)
publication for
name by Collection Platform
account
Chart Values:
Report
Report Values: Price Usage measure
Description:
currency The= USD;=Usage
total Full-text
number article
of Fullrequest
measure Text Articlearticle
= Full-text Requests in the Journal Reports by Month
request
Chart Run Date: 2011/11/11
Report Run Date: 2009/03/18
Reporting Month: Sep-11
Chart Period: 2007 (Jan) - 2011 (Nov)
Reporting Period: YTD 2008 (Jan - Dec)
Account: SwetsWise University

80000 Publication name Print ISSN Online ISSN

Total monthly usage over Subject
years category Total usage Price Price per use
Acta Mathematica 0001-5962 1871-2509 Science (General) 75 510.53 6.81
700,000
Acta Psychologica 0001-6918 Philosophy (General) 73 1185.79 16.24
Acta Sociologica 0001-6993 1502-3869 Social Sciences (General) 42 406.81 9.69
70000
Legend
Acta Tropica 0001-706X 0001-706X Medicine (General) 97 1987.92 20.49
Chart name:
Addictive Behaviors Total monthly usage over years
600,000 0306-4603 0306-4603 Medicine (General) 886 1590.12 1.79
Advances in Axis X name:
Mathematics Month 0001-8708 1090-2082 Science (General) 94 3500.87 37.24
Advances in Axis Y
Space name:
60000Research Usage (FT article requests) 0273-1177 0273-1177 Science (General) 882 2329.2 2.64
Advances in Water Resources
Report Title: Trend Analysis Report (SwetsWise Selection Support)
0309-1708 0309-1708 Geography (General) 270 1877.06 6.95
Full Text Article Requests

Aerosol Science andTitle

Report Description: Technology Show: All sorted on publication name 0278-6826
500,000
level; 1521-7388 Technology (General) 11 1228.08 111.64
Agricultural and Usage
Report Values: Forest measure
Meteorology
= Full-text article request 0168-1923 0168-1923 Geography (General) 602 3163.93 5.26
50000
Usage (FT article requests)

American
Report Run Journal
Date: of Medicine
2009/04/23 0002-9343 0002-9343 Medicine (General) 609 365.2 0.6
Reporting Period: Jan - Apr, 2007, 2008
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 0002-9378 Medicine (General) 424 570.62 1.35
400,000 2007 Usage
Account: SwetsWise
Analytical Biochemistry University 0003-2697 1096-0309 Science (General) 545 5406.17 9.92
40000
Analytica Chimica Acta Publication name 0003-2670 Print ISSN
0003-2670
Online ISSN Science (General)
Subject category 2007 Usage 1955 20085641.48
2008 UsageUsage % Difference 2.89
Ancient
AAP GrandMesoamerica
Rounds - American Academy of Pediatrics 0956-53611099-6605 1469-1787 Auxiliary
Medicine Sciences
(General) of History 48 26 320.18
44 -8.33 12.31
Animal
AAP NewsBehaviour
- American Academy of Pediatrics 0003-34721073-0397 1095-8282 Science
Medicine(General)
(General) 103 1197 20091083.62
Usage
148 43.69 0.91
Academic Pediatrics 300,000
Animal Feed Science
30000and Technology 0377-84011876-2859 0377-8401 Medicine (General)
Agriculture (General) 63 92 31
2929.16
2010 Usage
-50.79 31.84
Academic Radiology
Animal Production Science 1836-09391076-6332 Medicine (General)
Agriculture (General) 79
48 76
1514.7 -3.8
31.56
Accident Analysis and Prevention 0001-4575 0001-4575 Medicine (General) 57 48 -15.79
Annales Geophysicae - Atmospheres Hydrospheres and Space Sciences
Accounts of Chemical Research
0992-76890001-4842 1432-0576
1520-4898
Geography (General)
Science (General) 74
16 20113323.48
YTD Usage
142 91.89
207.72
Annales
ACS Scientifiques
Chemical Biology de l'Ecole Normale Superieure 0012-95931554-8929 0012-9593
1554-8937 Science
Science(General)
(General) 15 24 603.58
21 40 25.15
20000 200,000
Annals
Acta of Botany
Astronautica 0305-73640094-5765 1095-8290
0094-5765 Science (General)
Technology (General) 9 12 1116.5
19 111.11 93.04
Acta Materialia
Annals of Tourism Research 0160-73831359-6454 0160-7383
1359-6454 Technology(General)
Technology (General) 90 166 70
748.87 -22.22 4.51
Acta Obstetricia
Antonie et Gynecologica Scandinavica
van Leeuwenhoek 0003-60720001-6349 1572-9699
1600-0412 Medicine
Science (General)
(General) 18 46 21
2033.88 16.67 44.21
Acta Oecologica - International Journal of Ecology 1146-609X 1146-609X Science (General) 6 10 66.67
10000 100,000
Acta Psychologica 0001-6918 Philosophy (General) 10 29 190
Acta Tropica 0001-706X 0001-706X Medicine (General) 24 86 258.33
Addictive Behaviors 0306-4603 0306-4603 Medicine (General) 177 193 9.04
Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews 0169-409X 0169-409X Medicine (General) 81 115 41.98
0
Advanced Functional Materials 1616-301X 1616-3028 Technology (General) 14 12 -14.29
0
Advanced Materials
Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis
Jan-11 Feb-11 Mar-11 Apr-11
0935-9648
1615-4150
May-11
1521-4095
1615-4169
Jun-11
Technology (General)
Science (General)
Jul-11 Aug-11
60
22
Sep-11
53
62
-11.67
181.82
Advances in Colloid and Interface Science 0001-8686 0001-8686 Science (General) 22 13 -40.91
Month Month
Advances in Enzyme Regulation 0065-2571 0065-2571 Science (General) 11 12 9.09
Advances in Space Research 0273-1177 0273-1177 Science (General) 31 93 200
African Affairs - Oxford American Chemical Society Atypon Link 0001-9909 Cambridge Journals OnlineGeneral Legislative
1468-2621 EBSCOhost
& Exec. 35 Emerald FullText 64 82.86
Gale HighWire Press IEEE Xplore Informaworld IngentaConnect
JSTOR OvidSP Project MUSE ProQuest rsc.org
Scitation SwetsWise Wiley InterScience
To sum up

 The unique and most complete collection evaluation tool on

the market that includes usage, price, price per use and
impact factor all in one.

 Flexibility to maintain your entire journal collection with both

online editing and uploading

 Additional value added services

 Can create packages of individual titles to reflect any specific

deals
 Build your own report
 Consortia support
 Thank you

nsauri@es.swets.com