| dc.description.abstract | When it comes to developing collections, librarians
have historically faced the dilemma of providing access to high quality resources versus those that are highly used. The Journal
Citation Reports (JCR) is a tool that provides a series of metrics of journal quality or impact for more than 15,000 major
research journals. While the validity of these metrics has been regularly debated, there are precious few other tools or metrics
that are so easily accessible. This presentation covers a method using MS Access and Excel to combine JCR metrics with local
usage to generate comparisons with only a modest amount of work. By the end of this session, attendees will be able to export
data from JCR, clean it, match the JCR list with their list of e-journals, generate overlap rates by category, and compare external
rankings with internal usage. | en_US |
