Electronic Collection Management: How statistics can, and can't, help.
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Presentation delivered at the ASLIB Engineering & Technology group and the Aerospace & Defence Librarians Group event titled: Surviving the recession: maximising your value. Held at Imperial College on the 15th of November 2011.
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Electronic Collection Management: How statistics can, and can't, help.
- 1. Electronic Collection Management: How statistics can, and can’t, help. Surviving the recession: maximising your value ASLIB Engineering & Technology Group Aerospace & Defence Librarians Group John Harrington Selena Killick Head of Information Services Library Quality Officer
- 2. Introduction • Institutional, financial and strategic context • Previous methods used to review journals collections • Role of qualitative and quantitative measures • What these measures can and cannot tell us
- 3. Cranfield University • The UK's only wholly postgraduate university focused on science, technology, engineering and management • One of the UK's top five research intensive universities • Annual turnover £150m • 40% of our students study whilst in employment • We deliver the UK Ministry of Defence's largest educational contract
- 4. Key Drivers • Financial realities • Demonstrating value for money • Strategic alignment • Research Excellence Framework (REF) • Income Mission critical • Reputation
- 5. Expenditure on Journals Journal Spend 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10
- 6. Expenditure on Resources Cranfield University Information Provision Expenditure by Format 2009-10 0% 8% 29% Books inc. special collections Total Journals e-Books 58% Other databases Other digital documents 4%
- 7. How do we demonstrate that the collection is meeting the needs of the University?
- 8. Previous Techniques Used: Annual journals review using the follow data • Circulation figures – issues and renewals • “Sweep survey” to capture in-house use • Journal contents page requests • Download figures • Journal prices v the cost of ILL requests More recent focus on “cost per download”
- 9. New Approach Quantitative: Qualitative: • Size • Academic Liaison • Usage • Reading Lists Review • Coverage • REF Preferred • Value for Money
- 11. Quantitative Reporting • Systematic • Sustainable • Internal benchmarking • Elevator pitch • So what? • Enable informed decision making • Demonstrate smart procurement
- 12. Brought to you by the letters… &
- 13. Our Approach • What has everyone else done? • Analysing Publisher Deals Project • Storage centre • Excel training • Template design
- 14. Basic Metrics • Number of titles within a package • Total annual full-text downloads • Cost: • Core titles • e-Access Fee • Total costs
- 15. Value Metrics • Average number of requests per title • Average cost per title • Total cost as % of information provision expenditure • Cost per full-text download • Average download per FTE student/staff/total • Average cost per FTE student/staff/total
- 16. The Long Tail Downloads Titles Titles Titles Long Tail Short Tail No Tail
- 17. Subscribed Titles • Reviewing performance of core collection • REF Preferred? • Popular? • Three year trends in cost / downloads / CPD • Cost / Downloads / CPD categorised: • Zero • Low • Medium • High • Cancel?
- 18. Popular Titles • Which titles are the most popular? • Top 30 titles in the package • Three year trends in downloads • REF Preferred? • Subscribed title?
- 19. Considerations • When to measure from/to? • calendar, financial/academic, or contract year? • Which titles make up our core collection? • Do we have access to all of the „zero use‟ titles? • What constitutes Low/Medium/High? • What about the aggregator usage statistics? • Do we trust the usage statistics? • What is the size of the target population?
- 20. Electronic Collection Management: How statistics can, and can’t, help.
- 22. Academic Liaison • Who‟s using it? • Why? • How? • How valuable is it? • What will be the impact if we cancel? • Teaching? • Research?
- 23. Quantitative on the Qualitative: Analysis on the five REF Preferred Recommended Journals Lists: • Overlapping titles • Unsubscribed titles • Financial shortfall • Current recommended subscribed titles • Usage data
- 24. Reading List Review Qualitative analysis on course reading lists: • What are our academic recommending? • Where is it published? • How often is it recommended? • Are there alternatives?
- 26. What they can do: • Both qualitative and quantitative measures tell the story of the resource • Aid decision making • Justify procurement • Safeguard budgets
- 27. What they can’t do:
- 28. Conclusions
- 29. Closing thoughts • Is it worth investing in this? • Qualitative & Quantitative • Danger of relying on cost-per-download
- 30. Looking Ahead • Review of all budgets • All Resources • Systems • Staff • Services • Demonstrating Value and Impact • Resources • Services
- 31. Thank You Selena Killick John Harrington Cranfield University Cranfield University s.a.killick@cranfield.ac.uk j.harrington@cranfield.ac.uk Tel: 01793 785561 Tel: 01234 754477