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In Section 1 are listed those vendors and products/services compliant with the COUNTER Code of Practice for journals and databases. In Section 2 are listed those vendors and products/services compliant with the Code of Practice for books and reference works.

Last updated May 2008

1. Register of Vendors providing usage reports compliant with Release 2 of the Code of Practice for Journals and Databases

Only Vendors and Usage Reports included in this list may be regarded as being COUNTER compliant

Vendor

JR1 JR2 DB1 DB2 DB3 JR1a (optional) JR3 (optional) JR4 (optional) Audit status
ACM Inc Yes           No Yes Due (Dec 07)
ACS Publications Yes           Yes Yes Passed (Dec 07)
Allen Press Inc. Yes   Yes       No No Due (Nov 08)
Aluka Yes   Yes       Yes No Passed (Oct 07)
American Academy of Pediatrics Yes           Yes Yes Passed (Dec 07)
American Academy of Periodontology Yes       Yes   Yes No Passed (Oct 07)
American Anthropological Association Yes       Yes   Yes No Passed (Oct 07)
American Association for Cancer Research Yes           Yes Yes Passed (Dec 07)
American Association for Clinical Chemistry Yes           Yes Yes Passed (Dec 07)
American Association for the Advancement of Science Yes Yes         Yes Yes Passed (Dec 07)
American Association of Cereal Chemists Yes       Yes   Yes No Passed (Oct 07)
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Yes           Yes Yes Passed (Dec 07)
American College of Physicians Yes           Yes Yes Passed (Dec 07)
American Dental Association Yes           Yes Yes Passed (Dec 07)
American Heart Association Yes           Yes Yes Passed (Dec 07)
American Medical Association Yes           Yes Yes Passed (Dec 07)
American Physiological Society Yes           Yes Yes Passed (Dec 07)
American Phytopathological Society Yes       Yes   Yes No Passed (Oct 07)
American Psychiatric Publishing Inc. Yes           Yes Yes Passed (Dec 07)
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Yes Yes         Yes Yes Passed (Dec 07)
American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Yes       Yes   Yes No Passed (Oct 07)
American Society for Microbiology Yes           Yes Yes Passed (Dec 07)
American Society of Hematology Yes           Yes Yes Passed (Dec 07)
American Veterinary Medical Association Yes       Yes   Yes No Passed (Oct 07)
Annual Reviews Yes       Yes   Yes No Passed (Oct 07)
Ashley Publications Yes       Yes   Yes No Due (Dec 07)
Atypon Systems Yes       Yes   Yes No Passed (Oct 07)
Bentham Science Publishers Yes           No No Due (July 08)
BioScientifica Yes           Yes Yes Passed (Dec 07)
Blackwell Publishing Yes       Yes   Yes No Passed (Oct 07)
British Medical Journal Publishing Group Yes Yes         Yes Yes Passed (Dec 07)
Cambridge University Press Yes           No No Passed (Aug 07)
CFA Institute Yes       Yes   Yes No Passed (Oct 07)
Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory Press Yes       Yes   Yes No Passed (Oct 07)
Coremetrics SurfAid Analytics Yes Yes         Yes Yes Passed (Oct 07)
CSA Yes   Yes   Yes   No No Due (June 08)
CSIRO Publishing Yes           No No Due (Jan 09)
Duke University Press Yes           Yes Yes Passed (Dec 07)
EBSCO Publishing Yes   Yes Yes Yes   No No Passed (Oct 07)
Elsevier Engineering Information     Yes No No       Passed (Aug 07)
Elsevier –Science Direct Yes   Yes   Yes   No No Passed (Aug 07)
Elsevier-Scopus         Yes       Passed (Aug 07)
Emerald Yes   Yes   Yes   No Yes Due (April 08)
European Respiratory Society Yes           Yes Yes Passed (Dec 07)
Expert Opinion Yes       Yes   Yes No Passed (Oct 07) >
Factiva Inc. Yes   Yes Yes No   No No Due (Sept 09)
Future Drugs Yes       Yes   Yes No Passed (Oct 07)
Future Medicine Yes       Yes   Yes No Passed (Oct 07)
Gale-Cengage Learning Yes   Yes Yes Yes   No No Due (Nov 08)
Geological Society of America Yes           Yes Yes Passed (Dec 07)
Greenwood Publishing Group Yes           No No Due (Mar 08)
Highwire Press Yes Yes       Yes Yes Yes Passed (Dec 07)
Humana Press Yes           No No Due (Oct 08)
HW Wilson Yes   Yes Yes Yes   No No Due (April 08)
Indiana University Press Yes       Yes   Yes No Passed (Oct 07)
Informa Yes         Yes No No Due (Nov 08)
Informa Healthcare Yes       Yes   Yes No Due (Nov 08)
Ingenta Yes           No No Due (June 09)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Yes Yes         Yes Yes Due (Jan 08)
Institute of Physics Publishing Yes           Yes Yes Due (July 08)
Japan Science & Technology Agency Yes           No No Due (May 08)
Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group Yes       Yes   Yes No Passed (Oct 07)
JSTOR Yes           No No Due (Sept 08)
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Yes       Yes   Yes No Passed (Oct 07)
Mary Ann Liebert Inc Yes       Yes   Yes No Passed (Oct 07)
Massachusetts medical Society Yes           Yes Yes Passed (Dec 07)
MetaPress Yes           No No Passed (Nov 07)
Micromedia ProQuest     Yes Yes Yes       Passed (Oct 07)
MIMAS     Yes   Yes       Due (Oct 08)
MIT Press Yes       Yes   Yes No Passed (Oct 07)
Modern Language Association Yes       Yes   Yes No Passed (Oct 07)
Monash University ePress Yes       Yes   Yes No Passed (Oct 07)
Morgan & Claypool Publishers Yes       Yes   Yes No Passed (Oct 07)
Morningstar Inc     Yes Yes No       Due (June 09)
MPS Technologies Yes Yes         Yes Yes Passed (Sep 07)
Nature Publishing Group (includes Palgrave Journals) Yes           Yes Yes Passed (Sep 07)
NewsBank Inc. Yes   Yes   Yes   No No Due ( Jan 09)
OCLC Yes   Yes Yes Yes   No No Due (May 08)
Optimal iQ Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes Yes Due (Sept 07)
Ovid Technologies (Ovid SP) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Due (April 09)
Oxford University Press Yes           No No Passed (Aug 07)
Peeters Publishers Yes   Yes       No No Due (Mar 08)
Portland Press Ltd Yes           Yes No Passed (Sep 07)
Project MUSE Yes   Yes       Yes Yes Audit in progress
ProQuest Information and Learning Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes No Passed (Oct 07)
Rockefeller University Press Yes           Yes Yes Passed (Dec 07)
Royal Society of Chemistry Yes           Yes Yes Due (March  08)
S Karger AG Yes           No No Passed (Sep 07)
Sage Publications Yes           Yes Yes Passed (Dec 07)
Scitation-AIP Publishing Services Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes Yes Due (Jan 08)
Springer Verlag Yes           No No Passed (Nov 07)
Swets Yes   Yes         Yes Due (March 09)
Symposium Journals Yes           No No Due (June 08)
Thieme Publishing Group Yes           Yes No Due (Feb 08)
Thomson Scientific (ISI Web of Knowledge)     Yes Yes Yes       Audit in progress
University of California Press Yes       Yes   Yes No Passed (Oct 07)
University of Chicago Press Yes       Yes   Yes No Passed (Oct 07)
World Engineering – ASTM Standards     Yes Yes     No No Due (July 09)
World Engineering –DIN Standards     Yes Yes     No No Due (July 09)
World Engineering Ltd – ASTM Journals Yes   Yes Yes     No No Due (July 09)

Note:




1.
  • JR1 = Journal Report 1: Number of Successful Full-Text Article Requests by Month and Journal
  • JR1a = Number of Successful Full-Text Article Requests by Month and Journal for a Journal Archive
  • JR2 = Journal Report 2: Turnaways by Month and Journal
  • DB1 = Database Report 1: Total Searches and Sessions by Month and Database
  • DB2 = Database Report 2: Turnaways by Month and Database
  • DB3 = Database Report 3: Total Searches and Sessions by Month and Service
  • JR3 = Number of Successful Item Requests and Turnaways by Month, Journal and Page Type
  • JR4 = Total Searches Run by Month and Service

Full descriptions of the Usage Reports may be found, along with examples, in Section 4 of the COUNTER Code of Practice. As only Jr1, JR2, DB1, DB2 and DB3 are mandatory for COUNTER compliance, only these usage reports are independently audited. The other reports listed are optional additional reports and vendors are not required to have them audited to maintain COUNTER-compliant status.

2.

In the ‘Audited’ column is indicated the audit status of each vendor. All COUNTER compliant vendors must be independently audited within 18 months of being designated compliant, and annually thereafter.
a.Vendors that have passed the audit have the date highlighted in green. There next annual audit is due within 12 months of this audit date
b.Vendors that are due for their first audit have the date by which the audit is due highlighted in blue
c.Vendors whose audit is in progress are indicated in amber in the right-hand column.
d.Vendors whose audit deadline has passed have their audit deadline date highlighted in red.

 

   
 

2. Register of Vendors providing usage reports compliant with Release 1 of the Code of Practice for Books and Reference Works

Only Vendors and Usage Reports included in this list may be regarded as being COUNTER compliant for Books and Reference Works

 Vendor  BR1  BR2  BR3  BR4  BR5  BR6  Reports Available in XML?
 Blackwell Publishing Ltd    Yes    Yes    Yes  Yes
 Credo Reference (formerly Xrefer)  Yes          Yes  No
 Dawson Books  Yes          Yes  No
 Greenwood Publishing Group  Yes  Yes      Yes    No
 Informa  Yes  Yes  Yes        No
 MyiLibrary    Yes  Yes      Yes  No
 Ovid Technologies  Yes    Yes  Yes    Yes  No
 Safari Books Online    Yes    Yes    Yes  No
 Thieme Medical Publishers    Yes          No
 Taylor and Francis  Yes          Yes  No
 Value Chain International  Yes          Yes  No

Note:

  • BR1 = Book Report 1: Number of Successful Title Requests by Month and Title
  • BR2 = Book Report 2: Number of Successful Section Requests by Month and Title
  • BR3 = Turnaways by Month and Title
  • BR4 = Turnaways by Month and Service
  • BR5 = Total Searches and Sessions by Month and Title
  • BR6 = Total Searches and Sessions by Month and Service

Full descriptions of the Usage Reports may be found, along with examples, in Section 4 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Books and Reference Works.

 

   

3. Protocols for Compliance with the COUNTER Code of Practice

3.1 Vendors and products

The Register of COUNTER compliance shall list vendor products/services rather than vendors. In cases where a vendor entry in the Register is unqualified by a specific product or service, it should be assumed that all of that vendor's online products that fall within the scope of a particular COUNTER Usage Report comply with the Code of Practice. This is more likely to be the case for small vendors with a small product/service portfolio than for a larger vendor.

3.2 Compliance process

Vendors shall make an application to the COUNTER Project Director, indicating which of their products/services they wish to submit for inclusion on the Register. Applications should be sent by e-mail to the Project Director (pshepherd@projectCounter.org ). Applicants should specify the following in their application:

3.2.1 The COUNTER Usage Reports that they wish to be designated COUNTER-compliant.
3.2.2 The products/services covered by these usage reports
3.2.3 The URL on which the usage reports are available
3.2.4 The date from which the usage reports will be available

The project director shall require the vendor to make available to at least one of the COUNTER library test sites, for a period of up to three months, the usage reports relating to the product/service for which compliant status is being applied. The Project Director shall select the test site(s) from the list in Section 1.4 below. In the event that none of the test sites is a customer for the product concerned, the vendor may nominate a selection of library customers for the product/service, from which the Project Director shall designate one or more test site(s) to be used in that case.

The test site(s) shall provide feedback direct to the vendor, copying the Project Director on all feedback. Only when the test site has informed the Project Director that the usage reports for the vendor product/service complies in every respect with the COUNTER Code of Practice shall the appropriate entry be made in the Register.

In the event that the usage reports for the vendor product/service fail to meet the requirements of the Code of Practice after three months from the date on which they were first made available to the test site(s), the vendor shall have a further three months to comply. If, after this period, the usage reports still fail to comply with the Code of Practice, the vendor shall have to submit a new application in order to begin the process again.
During the application process the vendor and its product/service shall be listed on the 'Current Applications for COUNTER Compliance' table, which shall be available on the COUNTER website. Successful applicants shall be moved to the Register.

3.3 Auditing

In order to maintain COUNTER compliant status from 2007 the vendor must agree to have its COUNTER usage reports audited according to the standards required by COUNTER. Such an audit is to be carried out within 18 months of the date of entry into the Registry, and annually thereafter. It shall be indicated in the Register which of the usage reports have been audited, and the date of the audit. A detailed description of the auditing process may be found in Appendix E of Release 2 of the Code of Practice for Journals and Databases and in Appendix D of Release 1 of the Code of Practice for Books and Reference Works.

3.4 Library test sites

The COUNTER Library Test Sites are at:

Cranfield University, UK
GlaxoSmithKline, UK
University of California, San Diego, USA
University of Leicester, UK
University of Liverpool, UK
University of Wales at Bangor, UK
Yale University, USA

4. Vendor statements on COUNTER compliance

COUNTER compliant vendors should announce and promote their COUNTER compliance by using the simple term 'COUNTER Compliant', without reference to a specific Code of Practice or Release number. COUNTER compliant vendors are also encouraged to use the COUNTER compliant logo below, wherever possible. Artwork for this logo is provided in a range of sizes and formats in the links that follow:

COUNTER compliant logo in various sizes and formats:

To download, right click with your mouse on the logo and then choose "Save Image As" or "Save Picture As" and choose a location to save the file.


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