Chan Li – California Digital Library http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo The Official CDL Blog Thu, 28 Jul 2016 18:44:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3 CDL Job Opening for Library Data and Services Analyst http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2016/04/20/cdl-job-opening-for-library-data-and-services-analyst/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 19:45:04 +0000 http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/?p=19033 More...]]> The California Digital Library, University of California, invites applications for the position of Library Data and Services Analyst.

Overview: As a member of the Licensed Content Team within the CDL’s Collection Development and Management Program, the Library Data and Services Analyst has primary responsibility for collecting, analyzing, maintaining, and interpreting usage statistics for CDL licensed resources, and applies knowledge of academic libraries and data analysis concepts to additional data collection and analysis projects in support of UC libraries’ collection assessment and evaluation goals. The position works with publishers, vendors and campus librarians to investigate, analyze, and resolve data and service problems, develops and maintains relevant online documentation for use by UC librarians and other users of CDL services, and provides related support to other CDL service units.

Full position description and application information: https://jobs.ucop.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=59441

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status.

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Ebooks or Print Books or Both? Graduate Students Focus Group Study at UCSC http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2015/10/07/ebooks-or-print-books-or-both-graduate-students-focus-group-study-at-ucsc/ Wed, 07 Oct 2015 21:40:26 +0000 http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/?p=18333 More...]]> grad

This week, UCSC and CDL have launched a research project to study academic user behaviors around print and digital monographs at various points during the research lifecycle. This project is already announced on UCSC library website: https://library.ucsc.edu/.

In the next few weeks, focus groups with graduate students from arts, education, history and literature departments at UCSC will explore when, why and how researchers integrate print and digital books into their work. UCSC circulation and acquisitions data, including data from the Demand Driven Acquisitions (DDA) program for both print and electronic monographs, will also be incorporated into the study.

The landscape for scholarly monograph use may be changing in unexpected ways; more books are available in digital format, new forms of scholarship are emerging, the use of mobile devices is growing, as is the number of mass digitization programs, and library services are shifting to an increasingly networked, virtual environment. With these changes, the ways in which scholars interact with monographs, both digital and print, may also be evolving. To develop the best services and strategies for managing and providing access to existing and prospective monograph collections, academic libraries need to better understand the ways in which scholars use monographs.

This focus study will benefit the management of existing digital and electronic book collections, will assist librarians with purchasing and future collection building to meet user needs, and will also assist with decision-making around the development of digitization and shared print programs to ensure ongoing stewardship and preservation of monographs.

Chan Li (CDL), Danielle Watters Westbrook (CDL), Kerry Scott (UCSC) and Sarah Troy (UCSC) are conducting this research with the support of an advisory team at UCSC and CDL. Ivy Anderson is Principal Investigator and Elizabeth Cowell is the faculty sponsor. The research originated from a summer “Institute for Research Design in Librarianship” at William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University which was supported by an IMLS grant awarded to Loyola Marymount, SCELC and San Jose State University SILS.

Early next year, the analysis and report of this project will be published on the CDL website and archived in eScholarship. A focus group toolkit will also be published for institutions that might be interested in conducting a similar study.

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2008 Usage Statistics: Journal, Database and E-book Update http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2009/05/11/2008-usage-statistics-journal-database-and-e-book-update/ Mon, 11 May 2009 14:25:13 +0000 http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2009/05/11/2008-usage-statistics-journal-database-and-e-book-update/ 2008 annual UC systemwide aggregated and campus-by-campus usage statistics for selected major Tier 1 and Tier 2 journals, databases and ebooks are now available on the Inside CDL website.

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By Chan Li, CDL Library Data Analyst

2008 annual UC systemwide aggregated and campus-by-campus usage statistics for selected major Tier 1 and Tier 2 journals, databases and e-books are now available on the Inside CDL website at http://www.cdlib.org/inside/assess/usage_statistics.html.

Besides the two types of reports provided during the past few years, ejournal article downloads and database searches and sessions, CDL has begun to include e-book section download reports.  For Springer e-books, the first systemwide e-book pilot, usage reports are included by campus and subject.  Usage can be viewed by Springer subject categories. As new Tier 1 and Tier 2 e-book packages become available they will also be included in these reports.

Last year, several large publishers had problems reporting usage data for their content.  Elsevier ScienceDirect usage downloads were overstated by about 13% for the months of August 2008 to December 2008 for the UC libraries.  This made the 2008 ‘full year’ Elsevier usage statistics overstated by about 5%.  The reports are in the process of being corrected and have not yet been included in the 2008 annual usage reports.  Wiley has not yet provided July-December 2008 usage data for their Blackwell content.  CDL is working with these publishers to resolve the problems and will post the corrected reports when they are available.

One of the observations from reading the 2008 usage reports is that there are wide variations in some reported statistics.  Some of the changes may reflect actual usage trends and some may result from anomalies in the data. Below are some possible reasons for the usage changes:

  • New content or backfiles have been added
  • New features or links implemented on the interface associated with full-text access
  • Data mining activities
  • More external entry points for the full-text content, e.g., Google Scholar
  • Greater use of Google Scholar and other search engines instead of A&I databases, resulting in usage declines for those databases
  • Research interest changes on the campuses

In addition, some publishers are now providing and end-users have begun using software that allows users to easily download multiple full-text articles simultaneously.  For example, since September 2008, Elsevier has partnered with Quosa, a document download software company, to allow users to download up to 20 PDF versions of full-text research with only a few clicks.  CDL will be monitoring the effect these new tools may have on UC usage reports.

CDL will continue to monitor resource usage for identifiable trends and investigate those databases and journals with unusual usage patterns.

For more information, contact Chan Li (Chan.Li@ucop.edu).

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Two types of reports are included:  Ejournal articles viewed by campus and Database searches & sessions by campus.  The aggregated annual reports represent a better consortial view of all the campuses’ data with two years trends.  Some resources included here are not covered by ScholarlyStats service at present.  The CDL reports are selective and not every publisher or vendor provides usage statistics.  CDL will monitor usage for newly licensed resources.

Usage statistics are an important metric for collection analysis.  Combined with other metrics, usage statistics have been applied in the title adjustment process and in publisher negotiations.  Usage data may be misinterpreted due to a variety of reasons.  Web crawlers and harvesters are increasingly common in the academic environment and are already causing usage data anomalies in CDL licensed resources.  One example discovered in the 2007 statistics was that data mining at one of the campuses in the Linguistics department inflated the usage for the journal Science.

  • Beginning in 2008, two new accounts will be added to UC statistics: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory library and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory library.  There will be 13 user accounts total.  ScholarlyStats is continuing to expand its list of platforms.  More about ScholarlyStats service: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/assess/scholarlystats.html
  • ]]> New Nature Journals Available http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2007/03/22/new-nature-journals-available/ Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:20:29 +0000 http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2007/03/16/new-nature-journals-available/ More...]]> By Teri Vogel (UC San Diego), Resource Liaison for Nature journals

    The UC campuses now have access to the newest titles in the growing collection of Nature Publishing Group (NPG) journals.

    The multidisciplinary Nature Nanotechnology (launched in Fall 2006) will publish significant and quality papers covering all aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology, including "the design, characterization and production of structures, devices and systems that involve the manipulation and control of materials and phenomena at atomic, molecular and macromolecular scales." Refer to http://www.nature.com/nnano/about/index.html for more details about the journal’s scope. Along with research articles, readers will also get news and views, review articles, letters, commentary, book reviews and research highlights.

    Launched this year, Nature Photonics (http://www.nature.com/nphoton/about/index.html) seeks to publish the same high-level quality research as other NPG physical sciences journals, covering everything from "the fundamental properties of light and how it interacts with matter through to the latest designs of optoelectronic device and emerging applications that exploit photons."

    Readers can expect to find articles on topics like lasers, sensors, biophotonics, and quantum optics. Along with research and review articles, research highlights, letters and news and views, Nature Photonics will also take a look at the technology/business side with sections like "Out of the Lab" and "Product Focus." 

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