Understand the data

Our numbers: where they come from, how they're calculated, and what they mean

15 articles in this collection
Written by Jason Priem, Heather Piwowar, and Scott Chamberlain

Are turnaways/denials counted as usage/downloads?

Titles with only denials may show up in your dashboard

Written by Scott Chamberlain
Updated over a week ago

Why don't I see a certain title/journal in my dashboard?

Written by Scott Chamberlain
Updated over a week ago

Does Unsub account for Sci-Hub usage?

An important piece of fulfillment

Written by Scott Chamberlain
Updated over a week ago

Scenario Parameters

Parameters let you customize a Scenario to your institution's environment and to experiment with different assumptions about the future.

Written by Heather Piwowar
Updated over a week ago

Where do the APC prices come from?

Written by Heather Piwowar
Updated over a week ago

Where do we get Year of Publication data for PTA and open access calculations?

Written by Heather Piwowar
Updated over a week ago

Why is my journal title-by-title price not what I set it to be?

Handling difference between uploaded title-by-title price, and the price as displayed in the forecast scenarios

Written by Jason Priem
Updated over a week ago

What are the columns in Download as Spreadsheet?

Learn the details behind all the variables Unsub uses to forecast your costs and fulfillment.

Written by Heather Piwowar
Updated over a week ago

What's ROR?

Your Institution page includes a section on ROR. Here's what that is.

Written by Jason Priem
Updated over a week ago

Why does the forecast data change?

Written by Heather Piwowar
Updated over a week ago

How do we calculate your OA Publish spend?

Written by Heather Piwowar
Updated over a week ago

How do we calculate title-by-title subscription costs?

Learn where Unsub gets its journal price data, and how that data is used to forecast your future costs of subscription

Written by Jason Priem
Updated over a week ago

How do we calculate cost-effectiveness? (Cost Per Use, CPU)

Written by Heather Piwowar
Updated over a week ago

How do we calculate ILL requests and ILL cost?

Learn how Unsub predicts your library's post-cancellation Interlibrary Loan activity and costs

Written by Heather Piwowar
Updated over a week ago

Where do we get your faculty's citation and authorship data?

Written by Jason Priem
Updated over a week ago