4.1 Platform Reports Platform reports provide a summary of activity on a given platform to support the evaluation of platforms and to provide high-level statistical data to support surveys and reporting to funders. Table 4 (below): Platform Master Report and Standard Views Report_ID Report_Name Details Host Types PR Platform Master Report A customizable report that […]
3.1 COUNTER Reports for Libraries Reports for R5 consist of four Master Reports that allow the librarian to filter and configure to create customized Views of their usage data. R5 also specifies Standard Views (pre-set filters/configuration). To achieve compliance, a content provider MUST offer the Master Reports and Standard Views that are applicable to their […]
This section provides an overview of the scope of the COUNTER Code of Practice. Section 3 Technical Implementation of COUNTER Reports introduces the REQUIRED reports, describes the common format shared by all COUNTER reports, and defines the COUNTER report attributes and their values. Section 4 COUNTER Reports provides detailed specifications for each COUNTER Report. Use […]
Since its inception in 2002, COUNTER has been focused on providing a code of practice that helps ensure librarians have access to consistent, comparable, and credible usage reporting for their online scholarly information. COUNTER serves librarians, content providers, and others by facilitating the recording and exchange of online usage statistics. The COUNTER Code of Practice […]
This Code of Practice is implemented using the following convention: The keywords “MUST”, “MUST NOT”, “REQUIRED”, “RECOMMENDED”, and “OPTIONAL” in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119. Note that the force of these words is modified by the requirement level of the document in which they are used. “MUST” (or “REQUIRED”) […]
COUNTER’s library and content provider members have contributed to the development of Release 5 (R5) of the COUNTER Code of Practice. The Code of Practice enables content providers to produce consistent, comparable and credible usage data for their online content. This allows librarians and other interested parties to compare the usage data they receive, and […]
Librarians spend considerable amounts of money licensing different types of online content and want to measure return on the investment and to ensure that library budgets are spent as productively as possible. One of the ways to measure this return on investment is to assess usage statistics. This release of the COUNTER Code of Practice […]
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