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CDL ScholarlyStats Consortial Implementation
Ivy Anderson
California Digital Library
ICOLC – April 2007
Montreal
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UC Consortial Environment 10 Campuses + CDL
CDL also licenses on behalf of Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore Laboratories
3 Licensing ‘Tiers’ Tier 1 – systemwide licensing by the
CDL Tier 2 – collaborative licensing based
at the campuses (if <9 participants)
Tier 3 – locally-licensed resources Resources from any given provider
may encompass all 3 tiers
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Contract Process Began discussions March 2006 License signed January 2007
Still in implementation phase Consider this a trial to determine overall value for UC
Why so long? Pricing – a good deal (but one-year only) Services – concerns about how vendor error reporting and
revisions to statistics would be managed SS wanted separate contracts for each campus – eventually agreed
to campus authorization letters Contract iterations were messy – errors kept creeping into docs Unrelated local staffing issues
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Per ScholarlyStats Website 70,000 journals and almost 450 databases from 42 platforms
CDL Products Supports 31 of our vendor platforms
Not currently supported CSA, JSTOR, RLG Sites that require ip address for access to statistics Vendors who email statistics (Highwire)
Accounts CDL account + 10 campus accounts
Service Basics: Coverage
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Service Basics: Reports Report Types
Consolidated reports Journals: Full-text downloads by platform & journal title Databases: Searches & sessions by database & platform; turnaway statistics
Dashboard Reports Top use journals by platform; low usage journals; top 50 journals across
platforms, etc. (9 in all)
Reporting Periods Latest Reports: monthly (2-month lag) Archived Reports: annual reports and previously released monthly reports
Formats: CSV, Excel, Zip file A Zip file of all reports: contains all the consolidated reports and
dashboard reports in a single file
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Service(s) Timeliness is good thus far – reports posted by 20th of each month
SUSHI support
Implemented: ISI Journal Use Reports and Innovative ERM Tested: Ex Libris Verde
Promised a place on their website for vendor notices & problem reports, but not implemented thus far
Staff are helpful and responsive
Interface is clear, intuitive, and easy to use
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Consortial Reporting: We’re Not There Yet
Separate accounts and passwords for CDL and individual campuses Campus reports show individual campus stats only CDL reports shows systemwide totals only – functions like just
another library report
No combined view of campus(es) + total usage, percent of usage by campus, etc.
No separate lab stats, so campus totals and overall totals don’t jive Will we have to pay additionally for each lab?
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No More Tiers?
We assumed campuses would need separate ScholarlyStats licenses for their Tier 3 resources if they wanted to collect them via ScholarlyStats
SS can’t distinguish Tier 1, 2, & 3 statistics in all cases, even where vendors maintain separate accounts
Some Tier 3 resource statistics show up in campus reports, but inconsistently
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Other Caveats There are still several major vendor platforms that ScholarlyStats
doesn’t collect. (CSA, JSTOR, etc.)
ScholarlyStats will not maintain or troubleshoot vendor account information
Limited support for identifying problems in the usage data need a mechanism for annotating reports
Revised data – pulled down in next monthly collection cycle only Means corrections to previous years’ reports will not be retrieved (?)
Reports by platform aren’t that useful; reporting by package (“MPS Collection Platform”) would be more useful
ScholarlyStats reserves the right to include anonymized customer data in 3rd-party reports
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Overall Assessment Still in trial / implementation mode – more assessment
needed
Service and support seem very good
Consortial functionality and pricing need work – hope to work with ScholarlyStats on this
Only joint in town with SUSHI on the menu
Ask us again next year….