360 Counter E-Resource Assessment Service Assess your collection to make better decisions and reduce costs

360 Counter helps you assess your collection to make better decisions and reduce costs

In tough economic times, it is more important than ever before to justify expenditures and optimize purchases based on usage. 360 Counter is the most efficient way to know how much each e-resource is being used at your library. It allows you to make intelligent decisions about which resources to keep, which resources to cut, and the packages to renegotiate.

360 Counter helps your library reduce costs, make more informed collection development decisions, and ultimately provide better experiences for your patrons.

Quickly perform cost-per-use reporting and analysis

360 Counter dramatically reduces the time it takes to process and analyze usage data received from COUNTER-compliant reports. We download and prepare your reports and upload them to 360 Counter. After that, 360 Counter takes over. 360 Counter aggregates data, inserts costs, associates subjects, standardizes titles, calculates usage and costs, and automates analysis. You then can customize reporting based on the criteria that's most important for your library. The outcome is better data, better information, better analysis, and better decisions.

360 Counter enables you to:

  • AGGREGATE Project COUNTER and SUSHI-compliant reports from all your providers
  • VIEW journal usage across titles and providers
  • TRACK usage and access over time
  • REPORT usage, costs, and ROI
  • ARCHIVE reports and cost-per-use information

Convert raw data into meaningful information

The 360 Counter reporting dashboard organizes e-resource cost and usage data and presents it as meaningful reports that you can use to present to key stakeholders and to make better collection development decisions. Your library can fully customize display preferences for the 360 Counter dashboard so that critical information can be monitored at a glance. Librarians can build and save reports, share custom reports with colleagues, and create visually dynamic and interesting dashboards.

Features:

Data Retrieval Service

Serials Solutions staff downloads, corrects, and imports your Project COUNTER-and SUSHI compliant reports

Open-Source SUSHI client

SUSHI client enables automatic harvest of usage reports from SUSHI-enabled providers

Advanced assessment reporting

Produce text and graphical reports on usage, costs, and ROI

Report export

Export reports in a variety of formats for presentation to stakeholders or use in external systems

Automated cost-per-use calculation

View journal usage across titles and providers and track usage over time

Cost management

Import subscription costs and associate with subject and usage data

Acquisitions data import

Import acquisitions data from any ILS to receive more accurate costs

Historical archives

Complete archive of usage data, costs, and analyses prevents loss of valuable data and enables multi-year historical analysis

Standardized data

360 Counter cross-checks your information against the KnowledgeWorks knowledgebase to standardize title variations, associate subjects, and correct errors

Aggregate reports

Usage reports from your Project COUNTER vendors is aggregated and stored in one, centralized location

Includes Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks and 360 Core