A. Total Number of Requests Adding Intermediaries

Exercise 1: You are asked to prepare a report on your use of the OUP deal in 2012. You take the option 3 deal and have the separate backfile collection.

A. Total number of requests – adding intermediaries and subtracting backfiles

1. What is the total number of requests in 2012 from the publisher?

154,002 (JR1 (all))

2. What is the total number of requests in 2012 from the backfile collection?

19,995 (JR1a (archive))

3. Does OUP include requests from gateways and intermediaries in its own JR1 report?

No (JR1 including gateways and host intermediaries)

4. If not, how many extra requests in 2012 came through Ingenta, EbscoEJS or Swetswise?

Ingenta 347, Swetswise 1327, total 1674 (JR1 plus gateways and host intermediaries)

5. Which 4 OUP titles had the largest number of requests in 2012 through Swetswise?

British Journal of Criminology, Parliamentary Affairs, Industrial and Corporate Change, Applied Linguistics (JR1 plus gateways and host intermediaries, click on Swets to sort column by number of Swetswise requests

6. How many requests in 2012 were for titles in the current deal rather than the backfile collection- including any from intermediaries?

135,681 (JR1 excluding backfile usage – ‘Total current’ column) B. Trends over time

1. Has the number of requests gone up or down in the period 2009-2012? What was the percentage change in usage from 2011 to 2012?

Usage has gone up and down. It was down 28% in 2012 over 2011 (Trends over time – tables and graphs)

2. What were the four busiest months of 2012?

March, April, October, November (Trends over time – tables and graphs)

C. Use of intermediaries

1. What percentage of the total use of OUP in 2012 was through the publishers and what through intermediaries?

98.9% publisher, 0.2% ingentaconnect, 0.9% Swetswise (annual summary use of gateway and host intermediaries)

2. Name 3 other publishers in JUSP where usage through gateways/intermediaries is reported separately?

Eg Springer, Sage, Edinburgh University Press (annual summary of gateway and host intermediaries, all publishers – look for those where publisher usage is not 100%)

D. Use of backfiles

1. What percentage of total OUP requests in 2012 was for titles in the backfile collection?

12.8% (Annual summary use of backfiles) E. High usage

1. Looking at usage ranges, in 2012 how many OUP titles had high usage (100-999 requests) and how many had very high (1,000 requests and over)? What percentages were these of total requests?

125 (39%) high 45 (14%) very high (number of titles and requests in various usage ranges)

2. Name 2 titles beginning with A with very high usage

Age and Ageing American Journal of Epidemiology (number of titles and requests in various usage ranges, click on number in ‘very high’ column)

3. How does OUP compare with Elsevier and Project Muse in 2012 for percentages of high and very high usage?

Elsevier has 38% high and 5% very high Project Muse has 8% high and 0% very high (number of titles and requests in various usage ranges)

4. In your top 100 titles across all publishers for 2012, how many are OUP titles?

10 (Titles with the highest use, sort by publisher)

5. Which 3 of these OUP titles had the highest use?

Nucleic Acids Research, British Journal of Social Work, Bioinformatics (titles with the highest use, OUP)

F. Tracking individual titles

Look at the OUP title “Past & Present”. How many different publishers are recording usage of this title between 2009 and 2012. How do you explain this?

4 (OUP, Springer, Project Muse and JSTOR) (Titles with the highest use-OUP or JR1 OUP , click on the title to get usage record or use ‘Individual journal search and usage’) Title changed publisher from Springer to OUP, and is also included in Project Muse and JSTOR G. General questions

1. What other information do you need for your report on value of the OUP deal?

2. How would you use this other information with JUSP reports?

3. Which JUSP reports have you found most useful in this session?

4. Have you any other ideas for JUSP reports that could help you?