Breaking the Bundle: Analyzing Duke’s Journal Subscriptions
Collaborators: Jeff Kosokoff, Cathy Pin-Chian Lee, Jennifer Zheng
November 2018 to March 2020
A data science project to combine and visualize various measures of value for Duke’s journal subscriptions in an attempt to optimize subscription purchases and improve journal pricing transparency.
Responsibilities:
- Co-led student team during 10-week summer data science experience
- Compiled raw datasets for team, including the development of scripts to make API calls
- Post summer, refactored and extended R code generated by student team to improve logic, update Shiny app interface, and make the project more generalizable to different institutions and vendors
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Project Outputs:
Presentations at Conferences, Professional Gatherings
- Zoss, Angela M. (March 10, 2020). Partnering with Data Science Students on Journal Usage Analysis. Presentation at 2020 Electronic Resources & Libraries Annual Conference (ER&L2020), Austin, TX.
- Kosokoff, Jeff and Zoss, Angela M. (October 2, 2019). Breaking the Bundle: A Duke Libraries Data+ Project. Presentation at Duke University Libraries – First Wednesday Series, Durham, NC.