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Juro4C – IntroductionJuro4C – Introduction

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Part I

• Background• Motivation• Main features• Benefits• Limitations• Installation and Operations

– Requirements– Documentation– Source code

• Future Work

Outline

Backgroud

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10

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8 Universidades

Politécnicos

Laboratórios

Organismos da Adm.Pública

Organismos s/ finslucrativos

Hospitais

All for All

Some for some

More than 300.000 potencial users

Publisher

Cost/DW Cost/title DW/title

Cost/FTE

DW/FTE

A 2,30 2.507,00 1092,26 14,26 6,21

B 2,04 1.084,02 530,70 1,42 0,69

C 15,98 3.822,23 239,16 0,70 0,04

D 4,79 870,18 181,51 3,21 0,67

F 0,81 6.110,80 7530,35 0,60 0,74

Average 4,00 3.116,06 1.361,79 1,78 0,78

• Statistics management is:– Complex– Resource consuming– Time consuming– Subject to errors due to manual handling

Motivation

The solution

JURO4C

Main Features

• Administration – Institution, institution types and users

management

• Data Management– Data import – Collects vendors data

– Consolidation – Processes vendors data

• Reporting

• Support for consortia

• Interoperability – Interoperates with SUSHI compliant vendors

• Simpler (more standardised)

• Less operator dependency

• More reliable

• Reduce consortium operations time

• Public interface (self-service for community)

• Enhanced reporting (easier to make reports)

• Offer a better service to the community

• Based on OpenSource software

Beneficts

Limitations

• Basic validation process• Supports only journals

DEMO

Requirements

• Software RequirementsApplication Server Apache Tomcat/5.5.20

OS Name Linux

OS Version RedHat 2.6.9-5.EL

JVM Version 1.6.0-b105

JVM Vendor Sun Microsystems Inc.

MySQL database 5.0.27 with innoDB support

• Hardware requirements (minimum)– 1 dual core processor at 2.8 Ghz.– 1GB of memory– Disc space (depends on #institutions, #providers)

Documentation

• Analysis documents (Functional and Technical) in English

• Installation manual in English

• Administration manual in English

• User’s manual in Portuguese and English

• Other presentations in Portuguese

• An e-learning session in Portuguese

• Full sources and binaries are available and can be requested• VMWare Appliance

• juro4c@b-on.pt

Source code

Future work I

• Improve user experience (menus, feedback messages, table sorting/ordering/grouping, graphs)

• Introduce support for COUNTER 3 consortium report

• Make available more reports• Interfaces localization

Future work II

• Follow the developments on: – Protocols (SUSHI, COUNTER)– Tools ERMS

• Press publishers to be SUSHI and COUNTER3 compliant (all)

• Colaboration?

Project e-mail account: juro4c@b-on.pt

Thank you!

João Moreira (jmm@fccn.pt)

Rui Francisco (rui.francisco@fccn.pt)

Part II

Statistics: What future?

• Break into groups of 6;• Take the questions for discussion (15 min)• Report back (5 min)

• Question for discussion:1. Are existing standards and tools good enough to help us?

2. What is the importance of statistical information in consortium/institucion members decision making?

3. How do you handle statistics? How much effort do you put on it? What are the main problems?