Transcript JURO - Lingnan University

6th Annual Hong Kong Innovative Users Group Meeting
8-9 December 2005, Hong Kong
JURO : Creating the Journal
Usage Report Online System
Presented by
Ki Tat LAM
Head of Library Systems
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library
[email protected]
Last revised: 8-Dec-2005
Contents
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What is JURO and Why to use JURO?
Project COUNTER
JURO system architecture and design
Using JURO
Thoughts and future developments
Conclusion
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What is JURO?
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JURO – Journal Usage Report Online – is an
open source software that enables libraries to:
 capture journal usage data from COUNTERcompliant usage reports and in-house usage
statistics
 link the bibliographic, order and holdings
records from library catalog with usage data
 query and generate different usage reports
based on the user preferences
 preserve usage data for long-term use
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Why JURO?
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Library administration, collection development
and reference staff need to have a better
understanding of how the subscribed resources
are being used
Frustrated by the poorly organized usage data
 Different ways of recording and interpreting
 In varying formats – Excel, Web page, etc.
 Scattered sources from vendors and in-house
 Failure of linking to bib/order/holdings records
in library catalog for analysis
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Why JURO?
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Demand to have better control of usage
statistics is accelerated by the proliferation of
electronic resources, particularly e-journals
As Josephine Tsui (our Collection Development
Manager) expressed: we need a system that can
help us to:
 Determine what electronic journal titles are to
be swapped towards the end of the year
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Why JURO? [cont.]
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Aid cancellation decision by
• Comparing usage statistics of print and electronic
versions
• Reviewing usage statistics of print only journals
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Conduct collection analysis on usage by call
number
Trace normal usage patterns against statistics
supplied by the vendors
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Implementation Timeline
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June 2005 - Funding available to hire temporary
programmers for a few months for systemsrelated projects
August 2005 – Began JURO system design and
software programming by:
 Lawrence Chan, Ho Wing Kee and Allen Lam,
with valuable help on ideas, testing and
evaluation from colleagues from Collection
Development and Acquisitions
November 2005 – Released JURO Version 1.0
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Project
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Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic
Resources [http://www.projectcounter.org/]
“An international initiative designed to serve
librarians, publishers and intermediaries by
facilitating the recording and exchange of online
usage statistics”
Launched in March 2002
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Project COUNTER [cont.]
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47 COUNTER-compliant vendors so far (as of
November 2005)
 Includes almost all major vendors we
subscribe to – 26 of them have been
configured in JURO
 Such as: ACS, Blackwell, EBSCO, Elsevier,
Emerald, Extenza, HighWire, Ingenta, Kluwer,
ProQuest, Springer, Scitation-AIP, Taylor &
Francis, Thomson, Wiley, etc.
[http://www.projectcounter.org/articles.html]
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Project COUNTER [cont.]
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Produces Code of Practice so that the use of
electronic resources can be measured in a more
consistent way
 COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and
Databases
• Release 1 – January 2003
• Release 2 – April 2005
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COUNTER Code of Practice for Books and
Reference Works
• Draft Release 1 – January 2005
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Project COUNTER [cont.]
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Major Types of Reports:
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Journal Report 1: Number of Successful Full-Text
Article Requests by Month and Journal
Journal Report 2: Turnaways by Month and Journal
Database Report 1: Total Searches and Sessions by
Month and Database
Database Report 2: Turnaways by Month and
Database
Database Report 3: Total Searches and Sessions by
Month and Service
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Sample COUNTER-compliant usage report provide from
vendor [JR1_FullTextArticleRequests_10023722_Institution.csv]
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JURO System Architecture
Library
Catalog
Bib/Order/Holdings
Data
In-House
Usage Files
(e.g. print journals
Usage Data
access survey)
COUNTER
Usage Files
Import
Data Store
JURO System
Web Servlets
Web-based Querying and Report Generation
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JURO System Requirement
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Platform – Java programs, MySQL database,
Tomcat with web servlets
Can be run on Linux or Windows
Open source software – contribution of source
codes and feedback are welcomed
Developed based on INNOPAC; JURO will
function without bibliographic, order and
holdings data, or they can be imported from any
other systems
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Figure 1.
JURO’s
Web-based
client interface
showing the
Create Usage
Report form
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Figure 2. You can select the following types of reports, by year or by month
Figure 3. You can limit or filter the result sets by a range or by keywords in Boolean
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Figure 4. You can select what fields to display in the report
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Hyperlink to record in INNOPAC
Buttons for sorting
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Figure 5.
Full-Text
Access
to Wiley
e-journal
titles
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Figure 6.
Print
Journal
Usage
Report for
2005
sorted by
call number
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Figure 7. Print journals access statistics showing a significant decrease of usage
over the years
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Figure 8.
Displaying
print and
electronic
journal
titles in
parallel for
usage
analysis
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Figure 9.
Ranking
e-journal
usage of
2004/05,
with the
top 15
titles
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Figure 10. Identifying possible discrepancies in statistics provided by vendors by
tracing the usage patterns
Possible error from vendor!
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Import of Usage and Bib Data
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Import of COUNTER usage data is tedious and
time consuming – requiring downloading the
files vendor by vendor and month by month
 There is an initiative to enable the transfer of
usage data via web services - SUSHI
(Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting
Initiative)
 22 November 2005 – Swets successfully
tested the transfer to Innovative and Ex Libris
based on the SUSHI protocol
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Import of Usage and Bib Data [cont.]
SUSHI protocol will be issued as a NISO
standard in early 2006
Import of bibliographic, order and holdings
information from INNOPAC/Millennium is
cumbersome – requiring creation of review lists
and exporting the data elements
 How well Millennium ERM module integrates
COUNTER usage data has yet to be seen
 Suggestion to Innovative – to enhance its web
services product to allow remote function calls
to create and output review lists.
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Open Source Software
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JURO is open source software using the GNU
Public License
Available for download from:
http://library.ust.hk/software/juro.html
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We believe that it is highly beneficial that
libraries which develop non-commercial software
tools which might prove useful to other
institutions make their efforts available to the
larger community of libraries
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Future Enhancements
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Closely watch the development of SUSHI and
will incorporate it to JURO as soon as vendors
are ready for it
Improve the client interface – based on feedback
from users (from HKUST and other institutions
that adopt JURO)
Incorporate more types of reports
 a challenge to capture usage data from web
access logs for access scripted URLs
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Conclusion
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JURO is software to acquire electronic resource
usage statistics from vendors and in-house, and
allow online querying and generation of usage
reports
It meets a clearly defined need not yet being met
by available software
 Uses COUNTER-compliant usage data
 Consolidates multiple partially duplicative
efforts by different library units
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Conclusion [cont.]
Permits much more accurate analysis for
Collection Development and Acquisitions
efforts
 Semi-integrated with INNOPAC, the library
catalog
More importantly, JURO is an open source
software package that allows more institutions to
use it and expand on its features
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Thank You!
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