KB+ Overview
Anne Simmons
What we’re going to cover
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Introduction to KB+ & it’s Uses
Subscription Information
Licences
Journal Statistics in KB+
Questions/Feedback
Background
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Usage statistics are increasingly important as a validation for
our expenditure on e-resources
Nearly 8m journal articles accessed, 2.7m e-book chapters
accessed and 7.7m database searches
Collecting usage data is very time consuming
Jisc were aware of the difficulties for libraries and setup JUSP
to provide a single point for some of the bigger e-journal deals
(but by no means even close to all). JUSP statistics are fed into
KB+
JUSP/KB+ statistics are only for e-journals
Jisc also recognised that libraries have difficulties in keeping
track of what journals are included in ‘big deals’ and, as Jisc
negotiate these deals, they decided to create KB+ as a tool for
librarians.
KB+ Uses
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Verified, accurate and up-to-date publication information
for e-journal agreements. Made available under an open
licence and disseminated to organisations including Ex
Libris – to ensure SFX (and OU eJournals) is updated
with accurate information
Provides Subject Librarians with access to full details of
our titles included in journal deals
Gives access to (some) Usage statistics to aid decision
making on subscriptions
Provides Librarians with access to licence details so that
they know whether articles can be included in course
packs / VLE / or used for ILL
Getting Started
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Go to: http://www.kbplus.ac.uk/kbplus/
Each User Needs to register by logging in with their
Single Sign-on
They can then be accepted for access by a member of the
eresources team
KB + Subscriptions
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Currently lists all our major Ejournal Deals
Each subscription details
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KB+ has journal titles lists for the NESLi2 deals
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start/end dates
Our entitlements (journals included in the deal)
Licence
And full lists for many publishers that don’t offer NESLi2 deals
Journal Lists are updated throughout the year with any
changes to deals/publishers.
Will eventually list all our individual ejournal subscriptions
and database subscriptions
Licences
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Most licences are either Jisc licences or modelled on the
Jisc licence.
The Jisc licence is very liberal and designed to favour the
institution.
Most licences allow ‘walk-in’ user access.
Those providers that do not allow ‘walk-in’ user access
use Shibboleth (SSO) to control access.
Licences are displayed in KB+ in a ‘yes’ ‘no’ format.
Licence terms for Jisc deals have been assessed by Jisc
and it is their interpretation.
Other licences are by us but based on the Jisc
interpretations
Journal Statistics
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Report Types
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JR1 Number of Successful Full-Text Article Requests by Month
and Journal
JR1A Number of Successful Full-Text Article Requests from an
Archive by Month and Journal. JR1A is a subset of JR1.
Also newest report s include Open Access usage
JR1A – the period covered varies by publisher e.g. SAGE
content prior to 1999, Elsevier content prior to 1995.
JR1 is the most widely adopted e-resource report making ejournal reporting more comparable than, for example, database
and e-book reporting.
A small number of providers do not provide these reports.
Only JR1 reports are counted for SCONUL.
Finding Journal Stats on KB+
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KB+ will only show statistics for publishers that are in
JUSP
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Go to Titles
Search for the title
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It includes most of the major publishers
Participants listed at:
http://jusp.mimas.ac.uk/participants.html#publishers
You will need to amend the date if it is an expired subscription
Click on Subscription Name for your title
Find the Journal and click on the link – scroll down for
JUSP statistics
Yearly Journal stats on KB
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It is possible to download a spreadsheet of statistics for a
particular subscription
Only for publishers on JUSP
Only contains stats from that subscription not all titles
we take from that publisher
Go to University of Oxford > Subscription
Click on the subscription you want
Go to the Renewals tab > Click “Here”
Click on Generate Comparisons Sheet
Open Excel and Convert Text to Numbers
Questions and Feedback
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Any Questions
Feedback on KB+
eresources@bodleian.ox.ac.uk