Appendices A – Glossary of Terms B – Changes from Previous Releases C – Content Proivder Declaration of Compliance D – Technical Notes for Content Providers E – Audit Requirements and Tests F – Handling Errors and Exceptions G – List of Federated Search Products H – Sample COUNTER Reports I – List […]
Appendix I: List of internet robots, crawlers and spiders Download Appendix I The growing use of internet robots, crawlers and spiders has the potential to artificially inflate usage statistics. Only genuine, user-driven usage should be reported in COUNTER usage reports. Usage of full text articles that is initiated by automatic or semi-automatic bulk download tools, […]
Appendix H: Sample COUNTER Master Reports and Views Download Appendix H The Reports and Views in the following table are organized by reporting level with “Platforms” first followed by “Databases”, “Titles” and ending with “Items”. Within the reporting-level, the “Standard Usage View” appears first followed by the “Master Report”. Click the highlighted “View” link […]
Appendix G: List of Federated Search Products Download Appendix G The following are lists of known (to COUNTER) federated search products and user-agent values that may be used to identify federated search activity for reporting as “searches_federated” in database reports. NOTE: These lists are for reference purposes only and may not represent all current […]
Appendix F: Handling Errors and Exceptions Appendix F As a rule, the structure of the SUSHI response will be governed by the SUSHI schema; therefore, any error conditions that can be reported will be specified within the SUSHI response. The following is a definition of from the SUSHI OpenAPI specification that shows the format of […]
Appendix E Download Appendix E Audit Requirements and Tests Table of Contents General Audit Requirements Third party hosts and vendors Auditing and test scripts Frequency of the audit COUNTER Usage Reports for which an independent audit is required General conditions for carrying out an audit test The Required Audit Outputs The Required Audit Tests Stage […]
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Appendix C Vendor/Aggregator/Gateway Declaration of COUNTER Compliance Download Appendix C We <name of Content Provider> (‘The Company’) hereby confirm the following: That the following online usage reports that are supplied by The Company to its customers, and which The Company claims to be ‘COUNTER-compliant’, conforming to Release 5 of the COUNTER Code of Practice:< insert […]
Appendix B: Changes from Previous Releases Download Appendix B Appendix B: Changes from Previous Releases 1 Changes from COUNTER Release 4 (R4) Changes in the nature of online content and how it is accessed have resulted in the COUNTER Code of Practice evolving in an attempt to accommodate those changes. This evolution resulted in some […]
Appendix A: Glossary of Terms Download Appendix A Term Definition Examples/formats Definition A&I database A non-full-text database that typically contains article metadata, abstracts, and subject classifications. Used by researchers to locate publications relevant to their research. PubMed, PsycInfo A&I service A vendor or website that provides A&I databases American Psychological Association (APA) Abstract A short […]
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