Content Spending Analytics Meeting the Measurement Challenge Presented to: ICIC Skott Klebe Technical Product Manager Copyright Clearance Center
Content Spending AnalyticsMeeting the Measurement Challenge
Presented to: ICIC
Skott KlebeTechnical Product ManagerCopyright Clearance Center
Goals of Content Spend Analysis
Usage
Impact
Flexibility
Convenience
Latency
Cost
Labor
Barriers
Ma
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Min
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What spending are we looking at?
• Scholarly Journals
• eBooks
• Databases
• General Web Publications
• Open Access
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Content Spending
• Subscriptions– Upfront cost
– Unlimited use
• Document Delivery– Pay as you need
– Adds up!
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$ £€ ¥
$ £€ ¥
Content Spending
• Subscriptions– Upfront cost
– Unlimited use
• Document Delivery– Pay as you need
– Adds up!
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$ £€ ¥
$£€ ¥
COUNTER data
• Publisher metrics for subscription access
• Organization-wide
• No user, department, cost center data
• No way to record purpose of use
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Activity signals
• Indications of more detailed usage
–Even imperfect
• Document purchase transactions
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Mapping usage across the organization
R&D
Oncology
Lyon Madrid
Organics
Milano
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• Assess needs of different departments
• Identify “niche resources”
– Only used by 1-2 departments
– Consider charge-back, different license models
Signals of Intent
• Why was the content requested or used?
• Content that’s valued, not just used
• Assessing value:
–User surveys
–Copyright permissions
• Regulatory filings
• Requests from physicians
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Signals of Impact
• What content contributed most to desired outcomes?
• What are the most important strategic outcomes for your organization?
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Measuring Impact
What matters to your organization?
Can we trace those outcomes to content?
Can we show how our content supports those outcomes?
Drug
ResearchPatients
Products
Papers
PatentsRegulatory
filings
Non-
patent
citations
Citations
Physician
document
reqs
Subscription list: economic
Clearly economical
Clearly not economical
Possibly not economical
Possibly economical
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Subscription list: Managing Change
• Reactive
–Change in usage
–Change in subscriptions
• Proactive
–Announced strategic change
–Examine licenses
–Examine content fit
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Other uses for the data
• Evidence-based negotiation process
–Compare and contrast content and rights from
• Other offerings/packages from same vendor
• Other vendors
• Open access
• Make content recommendations
• New content uses
Text Mining
• Challenging license environment
–Want to mine everything
–Can’t subscribe to everything
• Look for alternative licensing models
–Mining-only access
–Feed mining uses back into analysis
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Automate the process
• Year-round cycle
–Usage collection
–Impact analysis
–Budget plan
• Change is constant, be ready to react.
Thank you!Skott Klebe, Technical Product ManagerProduct Management978 [email protected]