1. Statistical Tool for Licence Acquisition
(STOLA)
Lene Stampe, Roskilde University Library
Anette Schneider, Technical Information
Center of Denmark

2. Participants
Project owner: Danish Electronic Research Library (DEFF)
Participating universities:
- Aalborg University Library
- State and University Library
- Copenhagen University Library
- Roskilde University Library
- University Library of Southern Denmark
- CBS Library
- Technical Information Center of Denmark

3. The aim of the project
• To create an improved basis for decisions regarding
journal acquisition (licenses) to support research and
development at the Danish universities
– By examining the researchers’ publishing, citation and
reference methods
– By demonstrating the use of university library budgets
on license purchases

4. The goal of the project
• Help to identify whether the choice of materials is
adequate in relation to researchers' publishing behavior.
• Analyses of data will help clarify which journals and
licenses should be top priority on the shopping lists of
university libraries.
• Results can be used in close conjunction with the
Bibliometric Research Indicator and could be linked to
any future analyses of specific and "hot or not" research
areas and strategies.

5. Existing statistics
• Download statistics (retrospective) shows knowledge
about the use of subscribed licenses
• Turn away statistics shows knowledge about titles/years
in existing licenses to which users try to get access
• Interlibrary Loan statistics provide knowledge about
journals ordered by users from other libraries

6. Content in the STOLA database
• Extract from Ulrich’s (equivalent to the Danish
Bibliometric Research Indicator)
• Impact factors
– SIF (Scopus Impact Factor)
– JIF (Journal Impact Factor)
– Bibliometric Research Indicator
• Upload of no-match lists from libraries

7. Input from Universities
• Current subscriptions (e.g. from the local link resolver)
• Publishing – in which journals are we publishing? (Local
Research Information System (CRIS) with supplement
extracts from Scopus and ISI)
• Citations – in which journals are we cited? (Extract from
Scopus and ISI)
• References – which journals are we referring to? (Extract
from Scopus and ISI)
• Interlibrary Loan activities

12. Extract – journals in B, E and K
JNO ISSN Title BFI level JIF JIF5 SIF Comment
5 0003-0147 American Naturalist 2 4,796 5,489
2702 0730-7268 Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 2 2,565 2,734 0,13
3595 0269-7491 Environmental Pollution 2 3,426 3,904 0,15
5935 0022-1694 Jornal of Hydrology 2 2,433 3,171 0,09
6051 1472-586X Visual Studies 2
7695 1044-2057 Diaspora 2
7771 0022-0981 Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 2 2,116 2,443 0,09
9586 0141-1136 Marine Environmental Research 2 1,755 2,06 0,1
9993 0022-0949 Journal of Experimental Biology 2 2,722 3,254
10177 0300-3930 Local Government Studies 2 0,686 0,619 0,03
14725 0148-0227 Journal of Geophysical Research 2 3,082 3,475 0,16

13. Challenges – Publisher agreements
• Ulrich’s
• ISI
• Scopus

14. Challenges – The STOLA database
• Ulrich’s
• No-match
• Standardised data (if possible)
• 100 %?

15. Challenges - upload
• Current subscriptions
• Publishing – in which journals are we publishing?
• Citations – in which journals are we cited?
• References – which journals are we referring to?
• Interlibrary Loans
• Formats (UTF-8 / Excel / csv)

16. ISI
• Journals we publish in:
Address search in 2009– full titles – ISSN
• Journals that cite us:
500 downloads at a time – full titles – ISSN
• Journals in our references:
20 downloads full record with cited references
abbreviated titles – no ISSN
• Database was built to connect full title to ISSN

17. Scopus
• Journal we publish in:
Affiliated search 2009 - download max.
2,000 documents – full titles – ISSN
• Journals that cite us:
max. 2,000 downloads – full titles – ISSN
• Journals in our references:
max. 2,000 – we downloaded five years, year by
year – full titles – ISSN – “No source information
available”

18. Conclusions
• Identification of subscribed journals in relation to
publishing behavior - yes
• Better priority for future acquisition - yes
• “Hot or not” areas of research in collaboration with the
BFI - not tested

19. The future
(Roskilde University Library, Aalborg University Library and
Technical Information Center of Denmark)
• Improved database
• Upload of additional files
• Possibility to see each others data
• Data
– Quantity
– Quality
• Possible ad-hoc analysis
• Search and display of individual titles

21. Thank you for listening
• Further information:
– Lene Stampe (lest@ruc.dk)
– Anette Schneider (anws@dtic.dtu.dk)