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S66 - Cost-Use and More: Providing Actionable Data for an Electronic-Journal Subscription Review
Conference Track
2. Collection Development & Assessment
Learning Objectives
Following this session, participants will be able to understand the value, effort, and time involved in creating actionable data for an extensive electronic-journal subscription review, employ troubleshooting and time-saving techniques with UStat, and adapt applicable elements from our review to their own situations.
Abstract
MHC LITS has successfully used cost-usage data to guide the way when working with faculty to make e-journal subscription review decisions. For the 2015 review, we delivered Collection Development multi-faceted, multi-year actionable data using tools like ExLibris' UStat and additional reports like COUNTER JR5.