Appendix H: Sample COUNTER Master Reports and Standard Views Download Appendix H The Master Reports and Standard Views in the following table are organized by reporting level with Platform first followed by Database, Title and ending with Item. Within the reporting-level, the Master Report appears first followed by the Standard Views. Click the highlighted […]
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 Federated […]
Appendix F: Handling Errors and Exceptions Download 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 COUNTER_SUSHI API Specification that shows the format […]
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 […]
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 […]
Appendix B: Changes from Previous Releases Download Appendix B 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 ambiguities and, in some cases, conflicts […]
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 […]
Release Description of Change Substantive? Date approved Date for compliance 5.0 New Code of Practice to replace Release 4. Yes 2017-07-01 2019-02-28 (with support for January 2019 usage) 5.0.1 Amendments, corrections and clarifications based on feedback and questions from the community. Yes 2018-12-10 2019-02-28 (with support for January 2019 usage) A detailed description of the […]
A requirement of the COUNTER Code of Practice is that content providers offer libraries access to the current year plus the prior 24 months of usage or from the date they first became compliant, whichever is later. This requirement must continue to be met even when a provider may be transitioning to a new release […]
With R5, the COUNTER Code of Practice will operate under a continuous maintenance procedure to allow incremental changes to be made to the Code of Practice without creating a completely new release. This section describes those procedures. 12.1 Instructions for Submittal of Proposed Change Changes and updates to the COUNTER Code of Practice can be […]
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