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Journal Use Reports

Built in partnership with top institutions worldwide, Journal Use Reports® helps librarians and administrators get a complete picture of journal performance, use, and research activity at their institution.

Until Journal Use Reports®, librarians who wanted to analyze journal use had to collect and assemble data from many different vendors. The data couldn't be easily collected, combined, and analyzed. With JUR, users can easily access several types of customized data to help them make fully-informed collection development and management decisions.

The Charleston Advisor gave JUR a composite score of 4.0 out of 5.0:

"The most compelling application of this system is as a tool to better understand journal use at the local institutional level... Capturing different types of use data into a single interface provides a systematic quantitative approach to gather and review statistics... This product serves as an integrated management tool to assist in the assessment of e-journal collection use, and it provides some unique features for doing so."

- JoAnn Sears, The Charleston Advisor

With Journal Use Reports, you can:

  • Acquire a better understanding of departmental needs.
  • Analyze the depth of data at the journal level for a specific institution.
  • Analyze usage to spot trends by citations, usage or both.
  • Analyze data across categories.
  • Understand and document researcher impact.
  • Defend ROI by integrating user activity with researcher output to see how their library collection is contributing to academic output.
  • Spot collection gaps or research trends.
  • Support curriculum as well as collection development.

Why choose Journal Use Reports?

JUR brings together a unique combination of data:
  • Institutional COUNTER-compliant journal usage reports from publishers and vendors -- shows the value of a journal to the patrons.
  • Journal citation metrics from Journal Citation Reports® -- shows the value of a journal to the literature (a subscription to JCR is required.)
  • Institutional publication data -- lets users analyze journal use and institutional publishing patterns, creating profiles by department, section, and budget code.
  • Article-level data from Web of Science® --reveals citation activity at the researcher and departmental level.

  • ISI Web of Knowledge: Quickly find, analyze, and share information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities with this premier research platform. Whether you're writing a paper, looking for potential collaborators, analyzing research performance or evaluating your library's collection, ISI Web of Knowledge is built to accommodate your style of discovery and analysis.
  • Web of Science®: Provides quick, powerful access to the world's leading citation databases, with authoritative, multidisciplinary coverage from nearly 9,300 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals. You'll find current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage available to 1900.
  • Journal Citation Reports: JCR® Web offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. By compiling articles' cited references, JCR® Web helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. Available in Science and Social Sciences editions.

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