What is COUNTER?
Project COUNTER is an industry initiative that provides guidelines for the measurement, creation, and distribution of online usage reports to institutional subscribers. See http://projectcounter.org for more information.
AIP, Inc., has made a commitment to provide the COUNTER compliant usage reports to our subscribers.
What are the features associated with COUNTER Release 3?
- Further improvements to the reliability of the COUNTER usage reports
- Mitigates the potential inflationary effects on usage statistics of federated and automated search engines, internet robots, crawlers, etc.
- Provides tools that will facilitate the consolidation, management and analysis of the COUNTER usage statistics
- Improved COUNTER usage reports for library consortia
- Improved reporting for journal archives
What is SUSHI and how does it relate to COUNTER Release 3?
- The SUSHI (Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative) protocol has been incorporated into the COUNTER Code of Practice
- SUSHI has been developed by NISO (National Information Standards Organizations) in cooperation with COUNTER
- SUSHI allows for the automated retrieval of the COUNTER usage reports into local systems, making the harvesting and aggregating of usage reports much less time consuming for the librarian or library consortium administrator
- Several SUSHI client tools are currently available through various vendors
- For more information or assistance with taking advantage of this new service, please contact the publisher at help@scitation.org
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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