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What is COUNTER?
"The use of online information resources is growing rapidly. It is widely agreed by producers and purchasers of information that the use of these resources should be measured in a more consistent way. Librarians want to understand better how the information they buy from a variety of sources is being used; publishers want to know how the information products they disseminate are being accessed. An essential requirement to meet these objectives is an agreed international set of standards and protocols governing the recording and exchange of online usage data. The COUNTER Codes of Practice provide these standards and protocols and are published in full on the following website" - http://www.projectcounter.org/index.html
COUNTER Code of Practice – Release 2 Features
- A modified Journal Report 1, which, in addition to the data provided in Release 1, now reports total usage statistics for html and PDF full-text requests separately
- The inclusion of new ‘Publisher’ and ‘Platform’ fields in the usage reports
- A more detailed description of the protocols to be used when filtering out double clicks
- The introduction of XML-formatted usage reports
Usage Reports
Journal Usage
JR1 - Number of Successful Full-Text Article Requests by Month and Journal:
Article downloads on the Scitation platform
JR3 - Number of Successful Item Requests:
Total activity on the Scitation platform by page type
JR4 - Total Searches Run by Month and Service:
Searches on collections hosted by Scitation including the ASCE Research Library, PROLA, the IEE Digital Library and the SPIE Digital Library
Database Usage
DB1 - Total Searches and Sessions by Month and Database: Searches and sessions on the Scitation platform using the SPIN Database.
DB3 - Total Searches and Sessions by Month and Service
Searches and sessions on the Scitation platform using the Search Scitation feature.
Report Formats
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) - The coded format language used for creating hypertext documents on the World Wide Web and controlling how Web pages appear.
PDF - A file format created by Adobe, initially to provide a standard form for storing and editing printed publishable documents. Because documents in .pdf format can easily be seen and printed by users on a variety of computer and platform types, they are very common on the World Wide Web. To view files of this type, download the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available free from Adobe's Web site - http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
CSV (Comma Separated Variable) - The simplest form of file for holding scientific, or other, data. Data is listed in columns in a text file, each value being separated by a comma. Each new line represents a new set of data.
XLS - Excel format spreadsheet
XML (Extensible Markup Language) - A text format designed for ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML and HTML. The XML format will make it easier for customers to manipulate and merge the reports from different vendors.
Turnaways
A turnaway (rejected session) is defined as an unsuccessful log-in to an electronic service by exceeding the simultaneous user limit. Because Scitation's access model is not based on a maximum number of concurrent users, this usage information in not included in the COUNTER reports.
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