JISC

Our work has resulted in a range of guidelines, tools and use cases to help you measure the impact of your digital resources.

• Our Journal Usage Statistics Portal can help you base your journal subscription purchasing on how well they are accessed.   See our use cases to find out about the different ways in which JUSP can benefit institutions. The Raptor system analyses log files to bring you usage statistics for any e-resource, not just journals.  We've also produced a guide to using activity data which can provide business intelligence on many different activities, as well as data on resource use. 
• The Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources will guide you through qualitative and quantitative methods to measure the impact of your digital resources.
• A case study discussed in the toolkit, Splashes and Ripples, extracts findings from studies into the impact of 12 different digital resources on teaching and research. Recommendations include planning ahead to measure impact and developing measurement and analytic tools that can be adapted for use with different sizes of collection.
• It’s important to understand your audience when planning a resource or deciding whether to take out a subscription. Our Guide to Researching Audiences will help you design and conduct audience analysis and use the results.

The following show how different organisations are using impact data to inform decision making:

• The Listening for Impact project enabled the University of Oxford to demonstrate the impact of its podcasts, improve access to them and recommend policy and process changes to monitor impact in future.
• British History Online enhanced the tools and features of its online library to satisfy the needs of researchers, teachers and learners.
• Revenue, Recession, Reliance concluded that a thorough understanding of users correlated with continued growth and success in projects to manage digital resources.