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UKSG Conference, 29th-31st March, 2004. Workshop – Using COUNTER statistics Using COUNTER statistics: a practical perspective Simon Bevan, Cranfield University Louise Jones, University of Leicester
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UKSG Conference, 29th-31st March, 2004. Workshop – Using COUNTER statistics Workshop outline Aims of COUNTER COUNTER reports Role of pilot sites Lessons learnt.. Discussion Librarian Toolkit Summary
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UKSG Conference, 29th-31st March, 2004. Workshop – Using COUNTER statistics Cranfield & Leicester Cranfield –3 campuses; c3,500 students; 88% postgraduate; –Engineering, biosciences, management, manufacturing –Access to over 6000 e-journals –Use 12 COUNTER compliant vendors –Pilot site for E-measures study Leicester –19,500 registered students; 7,000 distance learning –Sciences, humanities, law, medicine, social sciences, engineering, management, education –Access to over 7800 e-journals –Use 18 COUNTER compliant vendors
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UKSG Conference, 29th-31st March, 2004. Workshop – Using COUNTER statistics Aims of COUNTER It is widely agreed by producers and purchasers of information that the use of these resources should be measured in a more consistent way. Librarians want to understand better how the information they buy from a variety of sources is being used; publishers want to know how the information products they disseminate are being accessed. An essential requirement to meet these objectives is an agreed international Code of Practice governing the recording and exchange of online usage data. COUNTER has developed just such a Code of Practice. COUNTER has been developed to provide a single, international, extendible Code of Practice that allows the usage of online information products and services to be measured in a credible, consistent and compatible way using vendor-generated data.
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Vendor JR1 JR2 DB1 DB2 DB3 JR3 JR4 Allen Press Yes No Annual Reviews Yes No Atypon Systems Yes No BioOne Yes No Blackwell Publishing Yes No EBSCO Publishing Yes No Elsevier-ScienceDirect Yes No Emerald Group Publishing Yes No Extenza Yes No Geological Society of America Yes No HighWire Press Yes Ingenta Yes No ISI Yes No MetaPress Yes No Nature Publishing Group Yes Oxford University Press Yes No Portland Press No Yes No ProQuest Information & Learning Yes No Public Library of Science Yes No Swets Blackwell Yes Thomson Learning/Gale Yes ( zero usage not reported) Yes No Wiley Yes No
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UKSG Conference, 29th-31st March, 2004. Workshop – Using COUNTER statistics COUNTER reports JR1 = Journal Report 1: Number of Successful Full-Text Article Requests by Month and Journal JR2 = Journal Report 2: Turnaways by Month and Journal DB1 = Database Report 1: Total Searches and Sessions by Month and Database DB2 = Database Report 2: Turnaways by Month and Database DB3 = Database Report 3: Total Searches and Sessions by Month and Service JR3 = Number of Successful Item Requests and Turnaways by Month, Journal and Page Type JR4 = Total Searches Run by Month and Service
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UKSG Conference, 29th-31st March, 2004. Workshop – Using COUNTER statistics
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Role of pilot sites 1.Definitions of terms used in the COUNTER CoP Clear, appropriate, omissions 2.Usage reports Merging, content, format, delivery, additional reports
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UKSG Conference, 29th-31st March, 2004. Workshop – Using COUNTER statistics Format & delivery Definitions: do the terms used in the usage reports work for you? As far as you can tell, are the vendors adhering to these definitions? Format: do they conform exactly to the specification for that report in section 4.1 of the Code of Practice? Delivery: are the reports available on a password-controlled website Delivery: are the reports provided as a CSV file, a Microsoft Excel file, or as a file that can be imported into Microsoft Excel? Frequency: are the reports updated monthly? Are the updates available within four weeks of the end of the reporting period? Alerting: are you offered an email alert when the new monthly report is available?
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UKSG Conference, 29th-31st March, 2004. Workshop – Using COUNTER statistics Ease of manipulation What do you use the reports for? Are there internal metrics that you create or plan to create using the data from these reports? Is it easy to extract and analyse data from the reports? How easy is it to merge data from the same report from different vendors? We are considering the creation of a librarian toolkit that should facilitate the automatic consolidation of usage data from different vendor sites. How would such a toolkit be useful to you?
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UKSG Conference, 29th-31st March, 2004. Workshop – Using COUNTER statistics Lessons learnt… Double counting full-text Complexity of some COUNTER reports Publishers/aggregators/Athens –Different figures to be added Other issues reported from pilot
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