MPS Insight

MPS Insight is a service providing you with timely COUNTER 3-compliant content usage reports.

Insight works as follows: at the end of each month, you send your raw usage statistics data to MPS where it will be processed to produce a number of COUNTER 3-compliant standard usage statistics reports that can be downloaded from the MPS Insight customer-facing web interface or fed directly to library Electronic Resource Management (ERM) systems through the SUSHI standard.

In addition MPS Insight provides a number of reports that will be useful for your sales, marketing and editorial teams. The reports will also be available through the MPS Insight publisher-facing web interface.

Benefits of MPS Insight to publishers

1. If you are a publisher who is not yet COUNTER-compliant, you may be interested in MPS Insight for the following reasons:

• Large consortia require COUNTER (release 3, by September 2009)
• Timely and reliable reports - results within 15 days after end of month
• Ease of use (easy interface to generate reports)
• COUNTER-compliance made easy - no audits for publishers using MPS Insight
• Publisher reports: these special reports assist publisher Sales teams in driving renewals, assist publisher Marketing teams in directing promotion and support publisher Editorial teams in designing journal editorial policy

2. If you are a publisher who already produces COUNTER-compliant usage statistics in-house you may be interested in MPS Insight for the following reasons:

• It is more cost effective than producing COUNTER-compliant usage statistics in-house
• Publisher reports: these special reports assist publisher Sales teams in driving renewals, assist publisher Marketing teams in directing promotion and support publisher Editorial teams in designing journal editorial policy

3. If you are a publisher who is COUNTER-compliant through your journal platform, such as Ingenta, Highwire or Atypon, you may be interested in MPS Insight for the follwoing reasons

• Publishers who are are not always very happy with the COUNTER-side of HighWire or Ingenta’s services
• Timely and reliable reports - results within 15 days after end of month
• Ease of use (easy interface to generate reports)
• Publisher reports: these special reports assist publisher Sales teams in driving renewals, assist publisher Marketing teams in directing promotion and support publisher Editorial teams in designing journal editorial policy

Benefits of MPS Insight to librarians

• More timely reports – MPS Insight aims to provide reports significantly earlier in the month than is required by COUNTER, with some publishers delivering reports by the middle of each month rather than at the end of the month
• SUSHI is available as a method of delivery of repost, in addition to the familiar CSV spreadsheets. This enables libraries with ERM systems to automate report collection
• Easy Administration – allowing libraries to make real time changes to accounts and passwords
• Additional Users – ability for librarians to request additional user accounts to access stats, for example allowing faculty staff to access reports
• Easy to Use attractive interface designed with input from librarians to be easy to navigate and access reports
• Consortia Administration - access consolidated consortia stats and individual member sites’ stats from a single login