Uses Of Usage Data Hanneke Steuten, Director Usage Reporting ScienceDirect & Scopus
Uses of Usage Data
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Where are we coming from?
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What has changed end-user behavior?
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What are future developments?
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Uses of Usage Data
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Where are we coming from?
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What has changed end-user behavior?
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What are future developments?
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Library Usage Reporting (Milestones) • • • •
1999: Paper reports mailed/faxed to customers 2000: Usage reports were sent by email 2001: Founding Partner of COUNTER 2003: Major new release enabling librarian log-on and remote downloading COUNTER Release 1 of the CoP for ScienceDirect
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2005: COUNTER compliance Release 1 of the CoP for Scopus New User interface, integration with Librarian Admin tool
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2006: COUNTER Compliance release 2 of the CoP for ScienceDirect 2007 & 2008: COUNTER audits by ABC Auditors
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Usage Reporting Dynamics * Libraries & COUNTER * Product Mgmt. Customer * Publishers Groups * Sales * Strategy Usage
New Features * UI Changes * Product Changes Back office *
Reporting Software & Hardware
Software updates * Increasing data volumes * Development, acceptance, production * 5
Uses of Usage Data
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Becoming Interlinked
Full-Text Platform
Full-Text Platform
Full-Text Platform
Full-Text Platform
Full-Text Platform
In 2000 full text platforms were closed boxes 7
Becoming Interlinked
A&I Databases
Citation Indexes Full-Text Full-Text Platforms Full-Text Platforms Full-Text Platforms Platforms
OPAC, Library Website
User Alerts
In 2008 all platforms are interlinked 8
Becoming Indexed by search engines
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Commercialusers users* coming coming into SD SD fromfrom external routes: routes: Subscribed into External 10,000,000 9,000,000 8,000,000 7,000,000 6,000,000 5,000,000 4,000,000 3,000,000 2,000,000 1,000,000
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Users via SEs
Users via other external S&L platforms
Users via other routes
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Guest into from External routes: Guestusers users*coming coming into SDSD from external routes:
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Users via SEs Users via other external S&L platforms Users via other routes
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Unsubscribed usage 2008
Users
Sessions
Abstracts
PPV FTAs
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10%
20%
30% Google
40%
50%
60%
Other external S&L platform s
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80%
90%
100%
Other routes
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Uses of Usage Data
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Where are we coming from?
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What has changed end-user behavior?
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What are future developments?
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Future developments Customer Reporting: – – – –
SUSHI The use of Usage Statistics Management packages Implementation COP3 Supporting greater choice in business models
Other: – Using usage data in the product interface – Following developments in the field i.e. Usage Factor project & MESUR, PIRUS – Future CoP releases 15
Thank you!
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