Transcript Dr. M. R. Rawtani

Emerging Technology in Usage Statistics:
COUNTER and SUSHI
DR. M. R. RAWTANI
INTRODUCTION
Library lives in the E-Environment
 E-Everything, slogan challenge to library for make
most of the information resources in digital form.
 Librarians have long experience on evaluating
library resources through various methods
traditionally, such as reshelving statistics and the
circulation list.
 Publisher evaluate resources based on their
subscription data with advantage of electronic
resources.
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Growing library services continue to change and
diversify with expansion into the electronic
environment; assessing usage of library resources has
become more complex.
In March 2002, Project COUNTER was launched “as
an international initiative, librarian, publishers and
intermediaries collaborated to setting standards for
the recording and reporting of usage statistics in a
consistent, credible and compatible way.”
So Cost per article can be calculated which can given
indication of the relative value of the journal and in
the era of budget cutting the return on investment can
be calculated.
USAGE STATISTICS AND ITS DEVELOPMENT
The usage statistics generally refer to the
indicators of the volume of user access to
electronic resources and services available
from content providers or vendors. [Shim &
McClure (2002)]
 Examples of indicators includes:
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a
count of sessions is a specific database,
 the time per session in a specific database,
 the count of searches performed,
 the number of times full-text documents are
downloaded
WHY WE NEED TO ANALYSE USE STATISTICS
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Use and usage of E-Journal is not visible like Print journals.
E-Journals are needed to demonstrate to funding agencies
what they are getting for their investments or the latest canopy
of Return on investment policy.
For collection development usage statistics are really needed
for making decision to decide what to cancel, what to buy less
of, and what kinds of E-Journals are needed.
Librarians need the data to know what to promote, for which
databases might patrons need more help in using.
License negotiators need data to give them informed leverage
for subsequent negotiations.
Understanding some old rules of thumb like the 80/20 rule in
the new digital environment.
OBJECTIVES OF COUNTER CODE OF PRACTICE
Defining Terms Used in Usage Statistics Report
 Data Processing and Auditing by approved
3rdParty
 Only intended usage should be recorded and all
requests that are not intended by the users should
be removed.
 All double clicks on an http link within 10 seconds
of each other will be counted as only one request.
 Where a PDF is involved, this filter is set at 30
seconds, due to the longer time it takes to render
a PDF.
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SUSHI
The first Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting
Initiative (SUSHI) was created as ANSI/NISO
Z39.93-2007 standard protocol.
 Recently on March 5, 2013 NISO at Baltimore, MD
announced the publication of maintenance
revisions of SUSHI protocol with standard number
ANSI/NISO Z39.93-2013.
 This Protocol defines “an automated request and
response model for the harvesting of electronic
resource usage data and is required for
conformance with the COUNTER Code of Practice.”
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http://www.projectcounter.org
Apply for COUNTER
membership
SUSHI WEB SITE
(HTTP://WWW.NISO.ORG/WORKROOMS/SUSHI)
Annotated diagrams
Data value registry
WHY COUNTER AND SUSHI ARE IMPORTANT
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For libraries and publishers
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Usage statistics are being used to inform decisions
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They need to be consistent, credible and
comparable
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And, easy to obtain =
SUSHI
SYMBIOSIS OF COUNTER AND SUSHI
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Solve the problem of harvesting and managing
usage data from a growing number of
providers.
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Promote consistency in usage formatting (XML)
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Automate the process
THE SUSHI ARCHITECTURE
WEB SERVICE APPLICATION
SOAP-XML - ELEMENTS
Who is asking for the report (requestor);
 Who is the report for (customer);
 Which dates do you want (report)
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COUNTER CODE OF PRACTICE
SALIENT FEATURES- RELEASE 4
Single Code of Practice
 New Reports
 New Data Elements
 Gold Open Access
 New Metrics Types
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RECORDING AND REPORTING USAGE ON
MOBILE DEVICES
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Journal Report 3 Mobile: Number of Successful Item Requests
by Month, Journal and Page Type for usage on a Mobile Device
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Title Report 1 Mobile: Number of Successful Requests for
Journal Full-text Articles and Book Sections by Month and Title
(formatted for normal browsers/delivered to mobile devices
AND formatted for mobile devices/delivered to mobile devices)
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Title Report 3 Mobile: Number of Successful Requests by
Month, Title and Page Type (formatted for normal
browsers/delivered to mobile devices AND formatted for mobile
devices/delivered to mobile devices)
WITH THE PROJECT COUNTER WEB SITE COUNTER
Librarians are able to
 compare usage statistics from different vendors;
 derive useful metrics such as cost-per-use;
 make better-informed purchasing decisions;
 plan infrastructure more effectively.
Publishers and intermediaries are able to:
 provide data to customers in a format they want;
 compare the relative usage of different delivery
channels;
 aggregate data for customers using multiple delivery
channels;
 learn more about genuine usage patterns.
FUTURE OF SUSHI: BEYOND COUNTER REPORTS
 SUSHI
was designed as a general
protocol for retrieving XML “reports”
 SUSHI can be used for other usage
reports
 SUSHI can also be used for other XML
“messages”, for example, automate
delivery of:
Holdings data with ONIX-SOH
License terms with ONIX PL
LOOKING AHEAD
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COUNTER
Consortium reports
 Updated schema
 New metrics and reports
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SUSHI can be expanded to harvest other data
Holdings (ONIX SOH)
 License terms (ONIX PL)
 Financial terms
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Tools and services to assist with data
normalization
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E.g. XISBN, XISSN projects from OCLC
CONCLUSION:
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SUSHI allows to collect (and provide access to) audited
COUNTER-compliant usage data on an unprecedented
scale and to do so with accuracy and a high degree of
reliability.
Without it, require a lot of additional staff to handle the
data processing alone and requires a significant time
and cost saving
It performs on the data and ensure the highest possible
chance that the figures will be presented to the end-user
without any problems or errors.
It provides publishers with an additional level of quality
assurance.
CONCLUSION
Cont…….
With the Project COUNTER
Librarians are able to compare usage statistics from
different vendors; derive useful metrics such as costper-use; make better-informed purchasing decisions;
plan infrastructure more effectively. Publishers and
intermediaries are able to: provide data to customers
in a format they want; compare the relative usage of
different delivery channels; aggregate data for
customers using multiple delivery channels; learn
more about genuine usage patterns.”
Thank You