Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore Adopts Powerful Serials Solutions 360 Counter
Jan. 20, 2011 – Seattle, Washington & Bangalore, India – Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest LLC, announced today that the Indian Institute of Management at Bangalore (IIMB), a leading graduate school in India, has selected and successfully implemented Serials Solutions 360 Counter to provide librarians with an easy-to-use system for viewing, analyzing and reporting on the use and return on investment (ROI) surrounding their collections.
“360 Counter gives us an enormously important resource to understand what journals are being used by our patrons,” said Dr. K. Rama Patnaik, a librarian with the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. “This is important as we look to justify our expenditures and optimize purchases based on students’ needs. 360 Counter is truly helping us make more informed decisions about which resources we should continue subscribing to, and which should be eliminated.”
Librarians at IIMB found the reporting and analysis capabilities with 360 Counter to be extremely beneficial. According to Dr. Patnaik, 360 Counter dramatically reduces the time it takes to process and analyze usage data received from COUNTER-compliant reports. “We simply aggregate our key reports and upload them to 360 Counter,” he explained. “After that, 360 Counter takes over. The service inserts costs, associates subjects, standardizes titles, calculates usage and costs and automates analysis. We can then customize our reporting based on the criterion that’s most important to our stakeholders.”
“We are thrilled that this prestigious school has chosen Serials Solutions 360 Counter for its cost-per-use reporting and analysis,” said Rob Mercer, vice president of global sales for Serials Solutions. “The many features of this service—from data retrieval capabilities and advanced assessment reporting to standardized data from our world class KnowledgeWorks knowledgebase—will serve them and their patrons well.”
About the Indian Institutes of Management
The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are graduate business schools in India which conduct research and provide consultancy services in the field of management to various sectors of the Indian economy. They were created by the Indian Government with the aim of identifying the brightest intellectual talent available in the student community of India and training it in the best management techniques available in the world, to ultimately create a pool of elite managers to manage and lead the various sections of the Indian economy. IIMs play a leadership role in the nation’s managerial manpower development and carry out research in emerging areas. These Institutes are recognized as premier management institutions, comparable to the best in the world for teaching, research and interaction with industries. IIMs have shared knowledge and skills with other institutions to improve their quality and standards in management education. IIMs have earned an international reputation for the quality of their alumni.
About Serials Solutions
Serials Solutions® is the global leader in E-Resource Access and Management Services (ERAMS) that serves more than 3,000 libraries worldwide. Our comprehensive suite of Software as a Service (SaaS) discovery and management services helps improve access to and use of collections, eases librarian workloads and ultimately reduces operating costs. Solutions include: the Summon™ web-scale discovery service, a world-class solution that provides instant access to the full breadth of the library’s collection through a single search; AquaBrowser®, a discovery layer that makes navigation more accessible; 360, the only integrated e-resource access and management solution; KnowledgeWorks, the authoritative e-resource knowledgebase and foundation for Serials Solutions 360; and Ulrich’s™, the world’s most authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information for serials and the most comprehensive source of print and electronic serials data available.
Serials Solutions is a business unit of ProQuest LLC.