scholarly ebooks in the humanities and social sciences: longitudinal assessment of project muse/upcc...
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2014 Charleston Conference Friday, Nov 7, 2:15 PMTRANSCRIPT
Association of Research Libraries Licensing Initiative
forUniversity Press eBooks
Charleston Conference, 2014
Celeste Feather, LYRASIS
2011: ARL contracted with LYRASIS to negotiate offers for university press ebooks to:
Establish a model for the e-book landscape by shaping offerings to serve the unique needs of the academic library world in cost, ILL, platform design, internal markup and search structures, and interoperability
Encourage partnerships between libraries and university presses to address e-book economics and licensing
Background
2012: Project MUSE/UPCC
2013-2015
Project MUSE/UPCC
Oxford University Scholarship Online
De Gruyter Online
Negotiated Offers(All DRM Free Collections)
15 libraries purchased entire MUSE collection
12 libraries purchased pub. year collections
25 libraries purchased subject collections
Participation in MUSE Offersthrough the ARL/LYRASIS License
Used by 3 Institutions
9% Used by 2 Institutions
21%
Used by 1 Institution
32%
Titles Not Used38%
Titles Used To Date in MUSE/UPCC2010-2013 eBook Collections
By Emory, Harvard, and Yale
8232 Titles
Libraries generally achieve savings over the cost of purchasing individual titles at MUSE after they use:
At least 15% of the titles in the entire MUSE collection
At least 35% of the titles in an annual collection
Less than 50% of the titles in subject collections (varies depending on subject)
Return on Investment
Chris Palazzolo, PhDHead of Collections & Social Sciences
Woodruff LibraryEmory University
Charleston Conference 2014
Purchase of 2010-2013 complete collections; funding through common
good funds (funds shared by all Emory libraries)
Supplements for 2010-2013 purchased in mid-2014 (not included in current data analysis)
2014 move to a la carte purchasing through YBP
MARC records loaded into back-end (Aleph) and piped into DiscoverE(discovery layer)
No change to existing approval plan; only around 60 titles were only available to users in e-format
Emory and Project Muse
Catalog Display
Availability of this Counter4 Report only became available in January
2014
95 un-owned titles were clicked on and patrons turned away
Of these 95 titles, 35 were checked out during the same period (January-August 2014), primarily titles pre-2005
Led to addition of single title firm ordering in YBP to meet demand
BR4 Reports (Turnaway)
Collection-use, institution-specific statistics from Project Muse
Circulation statistics from ILS (Aleph) matched on print ISBN
Call number information not included in Project Muse data; not extracted from circulation figures, but could be used to disaggregate some of the results (see Sarah’s report)
Data leads to lots of hypotheses, but often times not definitive confirmations
Did users utilize e-book when print book was not available, or do they just have a preference for the e-book format?
Who is utilizing the print title vs the e-book? Further analysis could be done on the print side, utilizing demographic data from the ILS, but not from the e-book angle (Shibboleth implementation may change this).
Data Sources & Challenges
0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500
titles accessed e
both formats circulated
titles accessed e-only
print format only
print titles circulated
titles accessed e both formats circulated titles accessed e-only print format only print titles circulated
Series2 25.31% 8.61% 16.58% 7.93% 16.53%
Series1 2148 731 1407 673 1403
Use of Project Muse Titles, 2010-2013
Overall Trends
0.00%
5.00%
10.00%
15.00%
20.00%
25.00%
30.00%
35.00%
40.00%
45.00%
% of Collections, 2010-3, Accessed in Specific Format
Titles Accessed E (2010-2013) Both Formats (2010-2013)
Specific Format Trends
0.00% 5.00% 10.00% 15.00% 20.00% 25.00%
Archaeology and Anthropology
Film, Theater and Performing Arts
Global Cultural Studies
Higher Education
History
Language, Literature, Linguistics
Philosophy and Religion
Poetry, Fiction and Creative Non-…
Political Science and Policy Studies
U.S. Regional Studies'
Ecology and Evolution
Use of Collections by Format, 2010-2013
Print--All Print Format Only E-Only/Exclusively
Use of Collections by Format
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Proportion Comparison of Format Use by Collection, 2010-2013
Ecology and Evolution
U.S. Regional Studies'
Political Science and Policy Studies
Poetry, Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction
Philosophy and Religion
Literature
History
Higher Education
Global Cultural Studies
Film, Theater and Performing Arts
Archaeiology and Anthropology
Proportion Comparison of Format Use
Project Muse Ebooks @ Yale University Library
Sarah Tudesco – Assessment Librarian
Project Muse Titles @ Yale
Electronic Only
32%
Print & Electronic
68%
Brief History of Muse at Yale
• Acquired MUSE e-book package in FY2012
• Continued to receive print titles on approval through FY2014
• Adjusted approval profiles to electronic preferred in FY2015
Print UPCC Circulation
Frequency @ Yale
Never Circulated66%
Circulated34%
34% of UPCC titles held at Yale circulated at least once. Includes
circulation that occurred before acquiring MUSE ebook package.
3,402
2,460
1,908
1,385
775
3,554
3,086
0
500
1,000
1,500
2,000
2,500
3,000
3,500
4,000
1,733
2,722
2013
1,301999
2015
893
2008
502
2012
2,561
20102009 2011 2014
900
Fiscal
Year
2,204
Print Circulation Transactions
Unique Titles that Circulated
Print Circulation of UPCC Titles
Print Circulation Demographics
40% 43% 44% 45% 45% 43% 44% 41%
29% 24% 24% 22% 23%20% 18%
17%
15%14%
16%12% 12%
12% 12%11%
6% 8%8%
11% 11%14% 16%
15%
11% 9% 9% 10% 11% 11%16%
11%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
20102008 20112009
Fiscal
Year2013 20152012 2014
Faculty
Graduate
Resource Sharing
Other
Undergraduate
Project Muse – Electronic Usage Frequency
Titles Never Accessed
76%
Titles Accessed
24%
24% of MUSE titles accessed at least once.
In FY2014 – Yale acquired some of the other packages offered by
MUSE. Those titles have only been available for a few months.
Project Muse: Print & Electronic
Circulated
34%
66%Never Circulated
Titles Never Accessed
76%
Titles Accessed
24%
Print Titles
Project Muse
Project Muse – Yale Usage by Quarter
Notes:
• Data from COUNTER Report BR2
• FY2015 – Usage through 9/2014
16,42417,624
14,914
13,147
908971
0
2,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
10,000
12,000
14,000
16,000
18,000
0
500
1,000
1,500
2,000
2,500
3,000
3,500
4,000
4,500
FY201
4 Q2
FY201
5 Q1
FY201
3 Q3
FY201
3 Q2
FY201
3 Q1
FY201
3 Q4
FY201
4 Q4
FY201
4 Q1
1,447
1,055
FY201
4 Q3
1,701
1,3531,135
Titles Accessed
1,565
44
Section Views
Individual Titles Accessed
Project Muse by LC Group
0 5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000
7,517
2,198
16,081
2,576
Analysis of COUNTER data from
2012 through Sept. 2014.
Groups
• Humanities (B, C, D, E-F, M, N, P)
• Sciences (Q, R, S, T, U, V)
• Social Sciences (G, H, J, K, L)
• Other (A, Z, No LC Number)
26%
25%
22%
75%
78%
85%15%
74%
80% 100%20%0% 60%40%
Other/Unknown
Social Sciences
Humanities
Sciences
Titles Accessed
Titles Not Accessed
Project Muse: Total Titles by Classification
0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000
L - Education
N - Fine Arts
T - Technology and Engineering
P - Language and Literature
H - Social Sciences
Q - Science
R - Medicine
K - Law
J - Political Science
G - Geography, Anthropology
D - History (except America)
E-F - History: America and United States
B - Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
M - Music
Titles Accessed
Titles Not Accessed
Activity by LC Classification: Print & Project Muse
20,00010,0000
T - Technology 1,204
M - Music 1,268
L - Education 1,295
N - Fine Arts 2,244
Q - Science
2,749
K - Law 3,005
G - Geography, Anthropology 3,434
J - Political Science 4,233
D - History (except America) 10,559
E-F - History: America 11,187
H - Social Sciences 13,470
B - Philosophy, Psychology, Religion 14,676
P - Language and Literature 18,376
2,504
R - Medicine
394
322
137
145
250
413
112
497
577
0 5,000 10,000
R
T
M
L
N
Q
K
G
J
D 1,174
E-F 1,775
H 1,675
B 2,224
P 2,851
Section Reqeusts (BR2) Print Circulation
What’s the Electronic/Print Overlap?
4,0742,546
2,519
P+E10,184
Discovery @ Yale
Title search (“Gather at the river”) in ORBIS – our main library catalog
More Discovery @ YaleTitle search (“Gather at the river”) in SUMMON – our discovery layer
Project MUSE eBooks at
Harvard University
Implementation and Assessment
Katherine Leach
Librarian for Western Languages Collections
Western Languages Division, Widener Library
Charleston Conference | November 7, 2014
Presentation Outline
• Project Overview
• Gathering and Interpreting Data
• Next Steps
The Big Question
“Stop the Presses:
Is the Monograph Headed Toward an E-only Future?”
- Roger C. Schonfeld, Ithaka S + R, December 2013
Basics of the Project
• Purchase (August 2013)
• Record loads (November 2013)
• Data capture (January 2014 – May 2015)
What the patrons see
Intentional Duplication
in Electronic and Print
24%
20%
3%
23%
3%
13%
4%
10%
70.7% of Project MUSE held in print at HarvardBreakdown as follow
History
Social Sciences
Music & Fine Arts
Literature
Science & Technology
Philosophy & Religion
Anthropology
Other
Disciplines used in MUSE
25%
17%
6%
21%
4%
14%
12%
1%
23 % of Project MUSE was used/accessed
History
Political Science and Policy Studies
Film, Theater, and Performing Arts
Literature
US Regional Studies, South
Philosophy and Religion
Global Cultural Studies
Other (less than 750 uses)
CirculationSome Unexpected Results
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
History
Social Sciences
Music & Fine Arts
Literature
Science & Technology
Philosophy & Religion
Anthropology
Project MUSE
Print 2013
Print 2014
16%14% 14%
24% 21% 20%
20% 20%18%
The current issue…
‘Monographs are different…this transition will take thoughtfulness and care’
Kevin Guthrie, ITHAKA
(Symposium on Sustainable Models for Print Storage
in 21st Century Libraries, October 2, 2014)
Next Steps
• Qualitative study / Survey
• Continue gathering statistics
Thank you
Katherine Leach
Western Languages Division
Harvard University Library