The Journal Value Analytics (JVA) initiative started as a pilot in 2012. It aims to provide members with more data to help evaluate the value of the titles within their CRKN licensed products. The JVA is completed on an annual basis; CRKN provides analysis for content that is up for renewal that year.
Journal usage
Journal usage
CRKN has been a member of Project COUNTER, “a non-profit organization supported by a global community of library, publisher and vendor members, who contribute to the development of the Code of Practice through working groups and outreach” since 2015.
"COUNTER provides the Code of Practice that enables publishers and vendors to report…
The Journal Usage Project extends the research initially conducted by Dr. Vincent Larivière at the Université de Montréal and with three other universities in Quebec that examined the impact on libraries of the consolidation of journal publishing and the development of what is known in the industry as the “big deal”. The extension of the…