Notes on Operations: Combining Citation Studies and Usage Statistics to Build a Stronger Collection

Wical, Stephanie H.; Vandenbark, R. Todd

doi:10.5860/lrts.59n1.33

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“…The COUNTER standard offers a consistent format and the ability to compare statistics from multiple providers, allowing for the calculation of the critical cost-per-use data point. 7 Previous studies validate the metric by demonstrating how COUNTER data correlate significantly with other usage data figures like proxy logs, link resolver statistics, and web analytics. 8 However, despite its usefulness and widespread adoption in libraries, current literature also reveals several limitations with COUNTER.…”

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Capturing and Analyzing Publication, Citation, and Usage Data for Contextual Collection Development

Pastva¹,

Shank²,

Gutzman³

et al. 2018

The Serials Librarian

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Librarians from the Galter Health Sciences Library at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine undertook a citation analysis study in early 2017 to supplement traditional electronic journal usage data in the hopes of more effectively demonstrating journals' value. The authors developed a methodology for gathering comprehensive publication and citation data for authors affiliated with the Feinberg School of Medicine, using Web of Science as the primary data source. Using this data, various metrics were employed to measure and evaluate journals in institutional and field-specific contexts, including cocitation networks, and increases or decreases of references over time per title. These metrics were compared against more traditional tools like Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources usage reports, cost-per-use analysis, and interlibrary loan statistics, to identify correlations and discrepancies. This use case demonstrates the potential value of incorporating publication and citation metrics into library collection development and evaluation practices.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 78%

Capturing and Analyzing Publication, Citation, and Usage Data for Contextual Collection Development

Pastva¹,

Shank²,

Gutzman³

et al. 2018

The Serials Librarian

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“…As electronic resources have become a constant in libraries, the tools and methods to complete citation analysis have changed over time, and vary from study to study. Some librarians manually pull citation data from indexing databases like Web of Science or Scopus and analyze it themselves (De Groote, Blecic, & Martin, 2013;Kimball, Stephens, Hubbard, & Pickett, 2013;Wical & Vandenbark, 2015). Others, rely on purchasing data from indexing companies such as Thomson Reuters (now Clarivate Analytics) (Chew, Schoenborn, Stemper, & Lilyard, 2016).…”

Section: Literature Review Collection Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring Usage: A Comprehensive Analysis of a Social Work Journal Collection

McKinnon

Tummon

2019

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This study examines what can be learned about a library's electronic social work journal collection from usage statistics, survey data, faculty publications and an examination of open access (OA) availability. A collections analysis was completed using data from two main sources: a custom collections report created by 1Science and results of a faculty survey on their top journal choices for teaching. After creating a list of journals important to the field of social work, top journals were identified by article downloads, facultyauthored publications, and references to faculty-authored papers. A brief publications analysis using faculty websites and author searches in Web of Science was also completed, to provide local, contextual data. Journals were searched in SHERPA/RoMEO to determine their OA level and archiving policy. Library coverage for the journals was also included in the analysis. Results show that the McGill Library has access to almost all of the journals identified as important to social work. Nearly one third of publications authored by the McGill School of Social Work since 2006 are OA, and more than half of the faculty in the school have at least one article published in an OA journal. While this is a good start for librarians who want to help faculty and students understand OA publishing and access, there is room for outreach in this area. While these results will aid librarians supporting faculty, students, and practitioners in the field of social work, a secondary aim of the study is to demonstrate a method that can be used by librarians undertaking similar analyses in other fields. Collection Analysis This study uses four measurements to determine 'usage': article downloads, publications written by McGill researchers, references made by McGill authors, and top journals as identified by faculty for teaching. The first result pertains to the 1Science report's category of Social Work journals. Within that category, Children and Youth Services Review was the top downloaded journal. See Table 1 for the top 10 journals by downloads in 2015, as per the 1Science report.

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“…Cílem bylo zjistit, zda fakulta poskytuje přístupy k časopisům, které jsou potřebné pro vědeckou činnost jejich výzkumných pracovníků. Tato studie publikovaná v časopisu Library Resources & Technical Services (Wical, 2015) přináší ukázku pokročilé analýzy statistik v kombinaci s jinými zdroji, využitelnou při akvizici e-zdrojů.…”

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Sběr a využití statistických dat v českých knihovnách

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Statistické výkazy jsou důležitým zdrojem informací z různých oblastí lidské činnosti. Své využití nacházejí i v prostředí knihoven. Článek se věnuje možnosti využití statistických výkazů při rozvoji a řízení knihoven. V úvodu je podrobně popsán proces sběru statistických dat v České republice v základních a speciálních knihovnách. Zmíněny jsou také mezinárodní aktivity v oblasti knihovních statistik. Autor se dále zamýšlí nad problémy sběru a interpretace dat. Nechybí ani využití údajů z knihovních výkazů pro různé cílové skupiny jako jsou zaměstnanci, uživatelé, zřizovatel nebo média. V závěru jsou uvedeny příklady uplatnění statistik v praxi.

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Notes on Operations: Combining Citation Studies and Usage Statistics to Build a Stronger Collection

Cited by 12 publications

References 26 publications

Capturing and Analyzing Publication, Citation, and Usage Data for Contextual Collection Development

Capturing and Analyzing Publication, Citation, and Usage Data for Contextual Collection Development

Measuring Usage: A Comprehensive Analysis of a Social Work Journal Collection

Sběr a využití statistických dat v českých knihovnách

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