We are delighted that JSTOR is one of the first content providers to successfully pass a COUNTER Release 5 Audit. This means that JSTOR is full COUNTER compliant! Peter Vlahakis is the Senior Product Manager at ITHAKA and he led the JSTOR implementation of Release 5. We asked him to tell us more about JSTOR […]
We will holding our Annual General Meeting during the UKSG conference. Location: Beckbury 2,Telford International Centre, St Quentin Gate, Telford, TF3 4JH, United Kingdom Date: Monday 8 April Time: 17.10 to 18.00 GMT We hope to see many of our members there. If you are unable to join in person, please join us by webinar. Register here […]
STM hosted our latest webinar and has made the recording available In this webinar the presenters: Explain Release 5 Metrics and Reports Show how publishers will count and report a typical user work flow Highlight the key changes between Release 4 and Release 5 usage reports The presenters also demonstrate Distributed Usage Logging (DUL). This […]
COUNTER Release 5 Compliance and Foundation Classes
We were delighted when Japan’s largest platform for academic e-journals J-STAGE became the first content provider to pass a COUNTER Release 5 audit. Our Project Director interviewed the team at J-STAGE to ask them about their experience. Here are the questions and answers. Congratulations on being the first publisher to pass a COUNTER Release 5 audit. […]
In COUNTER Release 5 there are fewer Metric Types than in Release 5. For clarity we have changed the names of the Metric Types. We have also added new Attributes which provide more detail about usage. COUNTER Foundation Class 1 It is always difficult to become familiar with new terms, so we have created an online […]
Ceci est un guide simplifié pour les bibliothèques
Our members told us that they would like online tutorials and so we are creating a series of COUNTER Foundation Classes. Each online class runs for around 10 minutes and deals with an aspect of COUNTER usage data. Tasha Mellins-Cohen provides the clear voice-over. Listen to Tasha explain metric types and reports: Foundation Class 1: […]
There is a need for the consistent and credible reporting of research data usage. Such usage metrics are required as an important component in understanding how publicly available research data are being reused. To address this need, COUNTER and members of the Make Data Count team (California Digital Library, DataCite, and DataONE) collaborated in drafting […]
Each year, COUNTER runs a satisfaction survey and invites all members of the COUNTER community to take part. The survey results inform our operational plan for the forthcoming year. This year, 19% of responses to our survey were from the UK and 44% from the USA. Other responses came from stakeholders in Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, […]
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