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Irene Barbers from Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH and a member of the COUNTER Executive Committee and COUNTER Release 5 Technical Working Group, recently gave a presentation at the Austrian Librarian’s Conference. She explained the key features and advantages of Release 5. The slides are available here, for those of you unable to attend the conference.
Counting data is much harder than journal counting pdf articles. Data are complex objects with a variety of file formats, numerous versions, and one dataset can be part of or derived from another dataset. Earlier this year, COUNTER (represented by Paul Needham) and Make Data Count team members (Martin Fenner (DataCite), Matt Jones (DataONE), John […]
The new Code of Practice is now published. COUNTER’s library, vendor and content provider members have contributed to the development of Release 5 (R5) of the Code of Practice. They have ensured R5 is internally consistent, unambiguous, and flexible, so that it will be easier for publishers to be compliant and so that the Code […]
This Friendly Technical Guide is for content providers implementing Release 5 of the Code of Practice. It covers the following: TRACKING USAGE Page tags Page tag examples Log files Cookies Abnormal spikes in usage Positive spike in usage Negative spike in usage Searches PROCESSING YOUR DATA What to count What not to count Return codes Sessions […]
Tasha Mellins-Cohen has written The Friendly Guide to Release 5 for Providers, an introduction to the COUNTER Code of Practice, Release 5, for publishers and other providers. The Friendly Guide explains: Release 5 Metrics Master Reports and Standard Views Attributes, elements and other (slightly) techy things Tasha is a member of the COUNTER Executive and organises […]
COUNTER Release 5 Code of Practice On 15 June, Paul Needham led a webinar about the COUNTER Release 5 Code of Practice. He explained about the four master reports at the heart of Release 5, the “Standard Views” on the Master Reports, and the new metric types and related attributes. Paul also discussed the timeline for […]
COUNTER Release 5 Code of Practice: Investigations and Requests
Draft 1 of the Code of Practice Release 5 The feedback we received from vendors and libraries in response to Draft 1 has helped us to improve and refine the draft Release 5 Code of Practice. Draft 2 of the Code of Practice Release 5 Our revisions to should not only help content providers implement the new release, […]
Our Technical Sub-Group has been working hard over the last twelve months to design Release 5 of the Code of Practice. This is an interview with Irene Barbers a member of the Sub-Group. Irene, please tell us about your background as a member of the Technical Sub-Group In my role as Head of Acquisitions in the […]
Wie ist Ihr Hintergrund als Mitglied der Entwicklungsgruppe? Als Leiterin des Fachbereichs Literaturerwerbung in der Zentralbibliothek des Forschungszentrums Jülich bin ich für die Weiterentwicklung unseres ERM-Systems sowie für die Implementierung der Nutzungsstatistiken verantwortlich. Seit Anfang 2015 bin ich Mitglied im COUNTER Executive Committee. Mit Beginn der Entwicklung von Release 5 habe ich die Möglichkeit, in […]
