COUNTER
and e-resource
management tools
Link Servers, Metasearch tools, ERM
systems
UKSG: December 2005
Jenny Walker
VP Marketing
Ex Libris Group
[email protected]
e-Resource Management
Tools?
SIAM journal on applied mathematics
SUSHI
SUSHI
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Standards Usage Statistics Harvesting
Initiative
Initial premise: too difficult/too expensive for
libraries to get their statistics each month
Goal: to retrieve and import COUNTER
reports from compliant content providers into
local systems automatically.
Proof-of-concept uses Web (SOAP) services
– COUNTER JR-1 report
NISO workshop – early 2006
Tripped up by Terminology?
Platform/Service
Publisher
Journals
Interface
Link Target
e-journals
Search Target
Collection?
e-Product
(Interface)
e-Product
(Package)
e-Product
(e-journals)
Linking/Link Resolvers
COUNTER basics
Q: Who gets to count full text requests?
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Publisher?
Aggregator?
E-Journal gateway?
Link Resolver?
A: The party that delivers the actual text to the
user
Linking
User finds citation of
interest in an A&I
database. An
OpenURL link is
provided
Citation
A&I
Database
Link
Resolver
Link
menu
Full Text
Publisher
site
Link-Out
Link-Out
Full text
JSTOR Annual Linking Totals
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005*
Total Accesses
50,279,128
80,082,633
131,510,667
171,969,141
226,509,990
Articles Viewed
7,928,405
14,645,589
25,934,992
35,263,463
60,795,293
Links to JSTOR
207,278
1,453,751
2,952,760
4,728,941
6,289,342
2.61%
9.93%
11.39%
13.41%
11.74%
Links to Articles Viewed
Ratio
* Year end projection
By kind permission of JSTOR
Portals/Metasearch
Metasearch
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Also known as:
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Federated search
Broadcast search
User presented with a single search interface
Searches multiple information sources at
same time
Eliminates (or assists with) resource selection
Retrieve, consolidates and ranks results
A new challenge for statistics
Metasearch: a new challenge
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What can be affected
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Session counts
Search counts
Why?
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“Search all” option or automatic selection/search
of many resources
Perform simultaneous activities
Optimization techniques
Searching without Metasearch
Resources
use
r
EBSCO
-Product 1
-Product 2
-Product 3
…
OCLC
ProQuest
Visits
=1
Sessions = 2
Searches = 2
OVID
With Metasearch engine
Metasearch
use
r
EBSCO
-Search All
-Business
-Medicine
…
OCLC
ProQuest
Visits
=1
Sessions = 20
Searches = 20
OVID
With Metasearch engine
Metasearch
use
r
EBSCO
-Search All
-Business
-Medicine
…
OCLC
ProQuest
Visits
=1
Sessions = 28
20
Searches = 28
20
OVID
Metasearch lessons
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Libraries should want to isolate metasearch
sessions and searches
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Capture source of activity
Isolate metasearch IP address
Have metasearch access through separate
account
Support metasearch standardization activities
through NISO
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We need a standard way to recognize a
metasearch session
e-Resource Reports and Stats
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Metasearch Tools
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Link Resolvers
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Searches by Search Target
Clickthroughs per Journal
Clickthroughs per Link Target
ERM systems
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Cost-usage analysis
Overlap analysis
Thank You
Jenny Walker
[email protected]