1. Benefits of the Journal Usage
Statistics Portal (JUSP)
Alison Brock UKSG April 2013

2. What JUSP does
• Collects usage (COUNTER JR1 and JR1a) reports from
publishers
• Places it into a ‘one-stop-shop’ for partner libraries
• Provides a series of reports by publisher, by date, by
publisher deals
• Checks and verifies the data with help from the user
community
• Saves Library’s time!!!

4. Why JUSP saves our time
• Getting figures from publisher websites was time
consuming
– Different access methods
– Different interfaces
– Different outputs
• Occasionally spotted errors in figures long after they had
been collected
• Sometimes didn’t have time to collect data before
decisions needed to be made (renewals)

5. What we use JUSP for
• Annual journals renewals process
• Subscription cost negotiations (usage based pricing)
• Assessing the value of ‘big deals’ (ROI)
• Maintaining a list of our core/subscribed titles
• Providing trend data
• Cost per download (quarterly KPI)
• Internal dashboard reports (total downloads per month)

6. Want more information?
• Journal Usage Statistics Portal
http://jusp.mimas.ac.uk/
• Adding value to usage statistics: the Journal Usage
Statistics Portal (JUSP) enhancements - Jo Lambert
(Mimas/JUSP) and Angela Conyers (Evidence Base).
The Serials Librarian, volume 63, issue 3-4, 2012,
pp305-314. The Serials Librarian is available online at:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0361526X.2
012.723608.

7. Alison Brock, eContent Advisor
Library Services
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
www.open.ac.uk