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• Usage Statistics at INIST
• Institute for Scientific and Technical
  Information
• Magali Colin Usage Statistics Project Manager
• Dominique Lechaudel Database Administrator
• CNRS NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

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CNRS - INIST

• CNRS

INIST
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INIST-CNRS Missions

• To collect and analyze the results and findings
  of worldwide research in Science, Technology,
  Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences.
• To widely disseminate these results and findings
  through various activities using traditional and
  new technological means available today.

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INIST-CNRS Activities

• Production of multilingual, multidisciplinary
  bibliographic databases FRANCIS, PASCAL, ISD.
• Production of freely available online article
  catalogues article_at_INIST - http//services.inist
  .fr (over 10 million records) and CatSearch
  http//catsearch.inist.fr (16 million records to
  date) searchable via Google and Google Scholar.
• Document delivery services Leading supplier in
  France (350 000 copies delivered in 2007).

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INIST-CNRS Activities

• Customized scientific and technical information
  services for the scientific community (current
  awareness, newsletters, training, electronic
  publishing, etc.)
• Research partnerships within the ICT community
• Negotiation on behalf of CNRS for the acquisition
  of electronic resources
• Partnership in Open Access initiatives
• Creation and design of interdisciplinary and
  subject-oriented portals.

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INIST-CNRS PORTALS
Portals dedicated to CNRS research communities

• Life Sciences
• BiblioVIE http//bibliovie.inist.fr
• Humanities and Social Sciences
• BiblioSHS http//biblioshs.inist.fr
• Chemical Sciences
• TitaneSciences http//titanesciences.inist.fr
  
• Engineering Sciences
• BiblioST2I http//bibliost2i.inist.fr
• Earth Sciences
• BiblioPl_at_nets http//biblioplanets.inist.fr

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INIST-CNRS PORTALS

• and
• BiblioSciences - http//bibliosciences.inist.fr
• BiblioInserm - http//biblioinserm.inist.fr
• BiblioCNRS (beta version), http//bibliocnrs.inist
  .fr
• The new generation portal
• TermSciences http//www.termsciences.fr
• The terminology portal

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Key Figures
SOME FACTS FIGURES ABOUT PORTALS

• About 30 INIST-CNRS staff members involved
  (about 350 FTE days for new portal creation, 600
  FTE days for current portal management)
• Access to 6 000 journals, 50 databases
• Over 80 000 authorized users
• Portal-specific user communities management,
  surveys, discussion lists
• Internal usage statistics production based on
  publishers figures, internal logfiles, CNRS
  databases

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BiblioVie

• Information on BiblioVIE ressources
• News
• Finding a journal or searching a database
• 3650 journal subscriptions
• 1200 open access
• journals

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Projects objectives

• Know how electronic resources are used and
  quantify their usage.
• Optimize acquisitions, match user expectations
  and negotiate with publishers.
• Streamline expenditures and provide budget
  requests with hard data.  

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Publishers statistics

• Monthly download of publishers usage data (from
  the publishers site via identification)
• Drawbacks of this type of statistics
• incomplete
• not homogenous
• not always available
• no links to users (1 IP/portal)

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Workgroup Creation

• January 2006 Creation of a work group on
  statistics at INIST-CNRS associating
• INIST-CNRS users
• INIST-CNRS IT specialists

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The need for internal statistics

• Homogenous and detailed data
• On every publisher
• Quickly available
• With links to user laboratories

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Internal Statistics Retrieval
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Specificity of internal statistics

• User identification
• Dated transactions
• Special processing
• Controlled results
• Fault detection

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Technical Aspects
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Prototype
The prototype Quantitative score card on
journal subscription prices, for some 3 600
titles and 40 publishers present on the BiblioVie
portal Submitted to INIST-CNRS head office
in December 2007
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Sample outputs
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Examples of indicator production

• Number of monthly accesses
• By laboratory
• By journal and by portal
• By publisher and by portal
• By scientific field
• By scientific department
• Average price of a journal
• By portal
• By publisher

• Total subscription costs
• By publisher
• By scientific department
• Average cost of access
• By journal
• By laboratory
• By researcher
• By publisher
• By scientific field
• By CNRS scientific department

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Issues

• Identification at laboratory level only
• Free of charge queries are not counted
• Possibility of different accesses to resources
• Identification not possible for some platforms
• Possibility of different interpretations
• Access to publishers statistics

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Perspectives

• In house
• Feed the data from other INIST portals into the
  portail_stat database.
• Update usage statistical reports by integrating
  evolutions over several periods.
• Enhance usage statistical reports with
  qualitative data (impact factor).

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Thank you for your attention Magali Colin Usage
statistics project manager magali.colin_at_inist.fr
Dominique Lechaudel Database administrator dominiq
ue.lechaudel_at_inist.fr