Dear Lorraine
Thank you very much for this advice. Regarding 2) is there any easy way
to know which publishers do this?
Thank you again,
James
On 20/11/2015 13:29, Lorraine Estelle wrote:
> Dear Colleagues
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> Lawrence has made some interesting points in his email below regarding possible reasons for an apparent decline in usage. I hope to explore these issues further.
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> Meanwhile there are two technical issues which could also impact on usage levels and which you may not be aware of:
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> 1) IP address ranges – publishers rely on libraries to provide them with accurate and recent full ranges of IP addresses associated with the customers’ institutions. Inaccurate IP ranges can result in inaccurate usage allocation as well as potentially blocked access if IP authentication is used. Keeping and providing a fresh IP list and to publishers and vendors helps support accurate usage reporting.
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> 2) Javascript page tagging – some publishers use javascript page tagging to measure online activity and usage, blocking of javascript page tags across user’s browsers either in settings or advertising blocking applications prevents the execution of these page tags and usage measurements cannot be made. Accepting javascript page tags and whitelisting publisher website domains in user/institutional browsers helps support accurate usage reporting.
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> Kind regards
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> Lorraine Estelle
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: An informal open list set up by UKSG - Connecting the Information Community [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Jones
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> Subject: Re: [lis-e-resources] Usage stats down for 2014-15?
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> Interesting discussion. For those suffering a dip in usage I'm wondering if it's the effect of resources such Research Gate & Mendeley? Academics & students can store papers & share them within these resources. If this is a possible cause, then do academics & students need to understand that they may be jeopardising institutional subscriptions to particular journal titles by storing/sharing in this way? That is, if article PDFs are stored/shared in Mendeley their use won't be reflected in JR1 reports (I think I'm right in stating this?). And it's the JR1 report which we librarians base our cancellation decisions on.
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> Mendeley feeds usage data into altmerics but I doubt m/any HE library's use altmetrics to evaluate the use of their collections on an annual basis. I'd think the majority would use the JR1 report and/or JUSP.
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> On the subject of Research Gate & Mendeley, does anyone know how these tools get around potential illegal storage of article PDFs (published versions)? Mendeley, for example, have information on what their users can and cannot do in terms of storing/sharing (https://www.mendeley.com/copyright/), but it appears to be an honour-based system. If we stored article PDFs (published versions) in our VLE (e.g. Moodle) without recording them for the CLA, for example, we'd be in breach of CLA copyright regulations.
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> thanks,
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> Lawrence
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