The SCONUL emeasures project 2010 The SCONUL emeasures project Pat Barclay University of Westminster Angela Conyers Evidence Base Birmingham City University Claire Creaser LISU Loughborough University ID: 796699
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Performance measurement in a changing environment
The SCONUL e-measures project 2010
Slide2The SCONUL e-measures project
Pat Barclay, University of Westminster
Angela Conyers, Evidence Base, Birmingham City University
Claire Creaser, LISU, Loughborough University
Sonya White, LISU, Loughborough University
Slide3Plan
E-measures pilot project
New e-measures questions
Issues to consider
The first year
What difference did it make?
Slide4e-measures pilot project
Aims
To review current e-measures questions and definitions
To draw together feedback on current e-measures
To look at approach taken by other national library associations
To make recommendations for amendments and/or additions to existing e-measures questions
Slide5Pilot members
20 libraries took part
Set of possible questions developed
Asked to submit quarterly returns and comment:
How easy were the data to obtain?
How reliable were they?
How well did they align with institutional requirements?
Slide6New e-measures questions
Four key areas of change:
Inclusion of e-journals and e-books held within databases in the count of serial and e-book titles
Addition of free titles or titles purchased in previous years
Addition of database searches as a usage measure
Separation of costs of different types of e-resource
Slide7Some issues to consider
How will the new e-measures statistics be used?
Longer term trends
Can SCONUL provide more help?
Slide8The first year
How did it go?
Experimental – little advance warning
BUT
Number of respondents to new or revised questions was high (generally around 140 out of total
148
respondents)
Suggests questions fit better with existing library practice?
Slide9e-books in databases: EEBO or not EEBO?
Some disagreed:
“I
have included EEBO or EECO in the count because that is the instruction but we have not added bib records to the library catalogue so I feel it distorts our EBook
count”
Others felt it reflected trend:
“As
e-books become more prevalent and in demand we now allocate 20% of our book budget towards their
purchase”.
Perhaps the time was right to make the change?
Slide10Serials – double counting?
Is it possible to identify unique titles?
“There
is a considerable amount of duplication between content of
backfiles
and current subscriptions, and between titles available on a number of different platforms. It is impossible to
deduplicate
these titles with any accuracy, and the total in C16 is therefore not the total of unique titles
.”
Does it matter?
Slide11Databases -
Journals
E-book
Other
Why the distinction?
Slide12Usage measures
Journals – full text article requests- COUNTER JR1
E-books – section requests COUNTER BR2
“Only
4 of 22 e-book resources licensed currently provide BR2 reports. Data for most of others obtained by BR1 x 5.4
.”
Databases – searches COUNTER DB1
“No
data available for 14 databases. In addition, 24 databases did not provide search data
.”
Slide13Costs
Separating out spend on print, print and electronic and electronic only
“Some
figures are rounded up. Not possible to disentangle spend on the various definitions of serials/journal databases: that on e-journals is by far the largest part so total figure is entered in
H4”
or
“Note
the reduction in print journals as a collection decision for 2009/10, with a view to reducing
costs”
Slide14What difference has it made?
Quite a lot!
Available resources now all included in the reporting
Better fit to what users see
... and to what is reported internally
Spending can be sliced to
match
Improved PIs
Usage better match to resources and to costs
Slide15E-journals
Slide16eBooks
Slide17Databases
Slide18Spending
Slide19Spending
Slide20Spending
Slide21Spending
Slide22Costs per use
Slide23Use per title
Slide24What next
Needs time to bed in
Some tweaks to definitions for 2010-11
Continue to monitor trends
In reported data
And in library practice!
Slide25Acknowledgements & contact details
Thanks go to:
Sonya White, LISU Loughborough University
Members of the SCONUL Working Group on Performance Improvement
The 20 E-measures pilot libraries
Contact details:
Pat Barclay, University of Westminster
P.Barclay@westminster.ac.uk
Angela Conyers, Birmingham City University
angela.conyers@bcu.ac.uk
Claire Creaser, Loughborough University
c.creaser@lboro.ac.uk