2. An increasing awareness………
……………………of the importance of usage…….
Increasing pressure on our librarians
More usage enquiries this year than ever before
Still plenty of blank looks when JUSP, JR1 or DBR1
are mentioned
COUNTER Release 3 or R4 might as well be medieval
Greek
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3. What do we use……………
JR1 Reports
Individual journal search and usage
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6. www.derby.ac.uk
Responses obliged to be simplified…….
E-R Usage_Summary_2013-14
Supplier code Title, part no. & title Total spent
Fund code
(base)
Usage
Total
Usage
(Cell E2)
% + / -
2012-13
Mean Cost
per Use
Usage Range
Descriptor
CABI Leisure, recreation & tourism abstracts [electronic res £1,554.00MULTIFUND 3 -95% Low Use
THOMGALE 19th Century UK Periodicals Online £18,762.00AHUME 93 -23% Medium
JISC CPCL Amadeus £10,722.00BCD 384 -1% High
BARBOUR Barbour index - environmental management £2,476.96ECD 97 -13% Medium
ERESDIRECT Bibliography of british and irish history £859.29AHUME 61 -86% Medium
JISC CPCL 19th Century House of Commons Parliamentary papers £562.80LCD 63 -58% Medium
SCRAN SCRAN £872.40ACE 121 -23% High
TECHINDEX Technical Indexes Limited £7,776.00MULTIFUND 1301 -6% Very high
OVID International film archive [Computer file] £891.60AHUME 175 -73% High
OLM CareKnowledge £960.00HCD 206 -41% High
ERESDIRECT Amadeus £1,548.00BCD 384 -1% High
THOMGALE Computer database [computer file] £4,008.00BCCD 1004 25% Very high
ERESDIRECT Picture Post Historical Archive £306.00LCD 78 -70% Medium
JISC CPCL Grove art online £2,186.40ACE 584 -29% High
• How do we formulate this information?