Journal Use Reports

 

get a complete picture of journal performance, use, and research activity at your institution

Until Journal Use Reports®, librarians who wanted to analyze journal use had to collect and assemble data from many different vendors. The data couldn't be easily collected, combined, and analyzed. With JUR, users can easily access several types of customized data to help them make fully-informed collection development and management decisions.

 

The Charleston Advisor gave JUR a composite score of 4.0 out of 5.0:

"The most compelling application of this system is as a tool to better understand journal use at the local institutional level... Capturing different types of use data into a single interface provides a systematic quantitative approach to gather and review statistics... This product serves as an integrated management tool to assist in the assessment of e-journal collection use, and it provides some unique features for doing so."

JoAnn Sears, The Charleston Advisor

 

 

Journal Use Reports offer:

  • Acquire a better understanding of departmental needs.
  • Analyze the depth of data at the journal level for a specific institution.
  • Analyze usage to spot trends by citations, usage or both.
  • Analyze data across categories.
  • Understand and document researcher impact.
  • Defend ROI by integrating user activity with researcher output to see how their library collection is contributing to academic output.
  • Spot collection gaps or research trends.
  • Support curriculum as well as collection development.

 

JUR brings together a unique combination of data:

  • Institutional COUNTER-compliant journal usage reports from publishers and vendors – shows the value of a journal to the patrons.
  • Journal citation metrics from Journal Citation Reports® – shows the value of a journal to the literature (a subscription to JCR is required.)
  • Institutional publication data – lets users analyze journal use and institutional publishing patterns, creating profiles by department, section, and budget code.
  • Article-level data from Web of Science® – reveals citation activity at the researcher and departmental level.