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Release 4 of the COUNTER
Code of Practice for eResources and new usagebased measures of impact
Peter Shepherd
COUNTER
May 2014
COUNTER Release 4
- objectives
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A single, unified Code covering all e-resources,
including journals, databases, books, reference works,
multimedia content, etc.
Improve the database reports
Improve the reporting of archive usage
Enable the reporting of mobile usage separately
Expand the categories of ‘Access Denied’ covered
Improve the application of XML and SUSHI in the
design of the usage reports
Collect metadata that facilitates the linking of usage
statistics to other datasets, such as subscription
information
Release 4: main features
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A single, integrated Code of Practice covering
journals, databases, books, reference works
and multimedia content
An expanded list of Definitions, including terms
such as ‘Gold Open Access’, ‘Multimedia Full
Content Unit’, ‘Record View’, ‘Result Click’, as
well as different categories of ‘Access Denied’,
etc. that are used for the first time in Release 4
Enhancements of the SUSHI (Standardised
Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative) protocol
designed to facilitate its implementation by
vendors and its use by librarians
Release 4: main features
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A requirement that Institutional Identifiers, Journal DOI
and Book DOI be included in the usage reports, to
facilitate not only the management of usage data, but
also the linking of usage data to other data relevant to
collections of online content.
A requirement that usage of Gold Open Access articles
within journals be reported separately in a new report:
Journal Report 1 GOA: Number of Successful Gold Open
Access Full-text Article Requests by Month and Journal.
A requirement that Journal Report 5 must be provided
Release 4: main features
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Modified Database Reports, in which the previous requirement to report
Session counts has been dropped, and new requirements, to report
Record Views and Result Clicks, have been added. (Database Report 3
has also been renamed Platform Report 1).
A new report, Multimedia Report 1, which covers the usage of nontextual multimedia resources, such as audio, video and images, by
reporting the number of successful requests for multimedia full content
units
New optional reports covering usage on mobile devices
A description of the relative advantages of logfiles and page tags as the
basis for counting online usage
Flexibility in the usage reporting period that allows customers to specify
a date range for their usage reports
Release 4: Standard Usage
Reports
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Journal Report 1: Number of Successful Full-Text Article Requests by Month and
Journal
Journal Report 1 GOA: Number of Successful Gold Open Access Full-Text Article
Requests by Month and Journal
Journal Report 2: Access Denied to Full-Text Articles by Month, Journal and
Category
Journal Report 5: Number of Successful Full-Text Article Requests by Year-ofPublication (YOP) and Journal
Database Report 1: Total Searches, Result Clicks and Record Views by Month
and Database
Database Report 2: Access Denied by Month, Database and Category
Platform Report 1: Total Searches, Result Clicks and Record Views by Month and
Platform
Book Report 1: Number of Successful Requests by Month and Title
Book Report 2: Number of Successful Section Requests by Month and Title
Book Report 3: Access Denied to Content Items by Month, Title and Category
Book Report 4: Access Denied to Content Items by Month, Platform and Category
Book Report 5: Total Searches by Month and Title
Multimedia Report 1: Number of Successful Full Multimedia Content Units
Requests by Month and Collection
Release 4: recording and reporting
usage on mobile devices
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The following optional additional reports enable usage on mobile devices to be
reported separately:
Journal Report 3 Mobile: Number of Successful Item Requests by Month, Journal
and Page Type for usage on a Mobile Device
Title Report 1 Mobile: Number of Successful Requests for Journal Full-text Articles
and Book Sections by Month and Title ( formatted for normal browsers/delivered to
mobile devices AND formatted for mobile devices/delivered to mobile devices)
Title Report 3 Mobile: Number of Successful Requests by Month, Title and Page
Type (formatted for normal browsers/delivered to mobile devices AND formatted
for mobile devices/delivered to mobile devices)
COUNTER will recognize as usage on a mobile device, which may be reported in the
above reports, any usage that meets one of the following criteria:
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useragents that are included in the WURFL list. WURFL is the Wireless
Universal Resource FiLe, a database containing the profile of mobile devices; this
database may be found at: http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/
usage via a proprietary mobile App provided by the publisher/content provider
Release 4: timetable for
implementation
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Deadline date for implementation of Release 4:
31 December 2013
-after this date only vendors compliant with Release
4 are COUNTER compliant
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Over 100 Publishers/Vendors are now providing Release
4 Usage Reports
COUNTER Code of Practice
-Release 4
Full details of Release 4 will be found on the
COUNTER website at:
http://www.projectcounter.org/code_practice.html
New COUNTER usage-based
measures of impact
Advantages:
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Usage can be reported at the individual item and individual researcher level
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Usage is more ’immediate’ than citations
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Usage potentially covers all categories of online publication
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COUNTER usage statistics are independently audited and generally trusted
Two new COUNTER Codes of Practice have been launched:
COUNTER Code of Practice for Articles (COUNTER Articles)
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Recording, consolidation and reporting of usage at the individual article level
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Standard applies to publishers, aggregators and repositories
COUNTER Code of Practice for Usage Factor
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Usage-based measure of impact of journals, institutions and individual scholars
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The Usage Factor for a Journal is the Median Value in a set of ordered full-text article usage data ( i.e. the
number of successful full text article requests) for a specified Usage Period of articles published in a journal
during a specified Publication Period.
COUNTER Articles and Usage Factor are both based on the recording and
consolidation of COUNTER-compliant usage data at the individual article level
COUNTER Code of Practice for
Articles
COUNTER Articles covers the following areas:
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article types to be counted;
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article versions to be counted;
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data elements to be measured;
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definitions of these data elements;
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content and format of usage reports;
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requirements for data collection and data processing;
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requirements for independent audit (under development);
Release 1 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Articles is available on the
COUNTER website at: http://www.projectcounter.org/counterarticles.html
Usage Factor: aims and outcomes
The overall aim of the Usage Factor project was to explore how online journal usage
statistics might form the basis of a new measure of journal impact and quality, the
Usage Factor for journals.
Specific objectives were to answer the following questions:
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Will Usage Factor be a statistically meaningful measure?
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Will Usage Factor be accepted by researchers, publishers, librarians and research
institutions?
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Will Usage Factor be statistically credible and robust?
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Is there an organizational and economic model for its implementation that would
cost-effective and be acceptable to the major stakeholder groups.
Following extensive testing using usage data for over 200 journals from a range of
publishers the main outcome of the project has been the new COUNTER Code of
Practice for Usage Factors. This new Code of Practice uses the article level usage
data collected using the COUNTER Code of Practice for Articles as the basis for the
calculation of the Usage Factor.
The COUNTER Code of Practice for Usage Factors is available on the COUNTER
website at: http://www.projectcounter.org/usage_factor.html
Who will benefit from the Usage
Factor?
Four major groups will benefit from the introduction of Usage Factors:
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Authors, especially those in practitioner-oriented fields, where citationbased measures understate the impact of journals, as well as those in
areas outside the core STM fields of pure research, where coverage of
journals by citation-based measures is weak.
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Publishers, especially those with large numbers of journals outside of the
core STM research areas, where there is no reliable, universal measure of
journal impact, because citation-based measures are either inadequate or
non-existent for these fields
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Librarians, when deciding on new journal acquisitions, have no reliable,
global measures of journal impact for fields outside the core STM
research fields. They would use usage-based measures to help them
prioritise journals to be added to their collections.
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Research Funding Agencies, who are seeking a wider range of credible,
consistent quantitative measures of the value and impact of the outputs of
the research that they fund.
Usage Factor: Journals
- the calculation
Publishers will be able to generate Usage Factors using the Code of Practice, but will
have to be independently audited for their Usage Factors to be listed in the Usage
Factor Central Registry. Two categories of Usage Factor may be calculated
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The 24 month Journal Usage Factor 2010/2011: all content
The median number of successful requests during 2010/2011 to content
published in the journal in 2010/2011
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The Journal Usage Factor 2010/2011: full-text articles only
The median number of successful requests during 2010/2011 to full-text
articles published in the journal in 2010/2011
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Note:
1.The article-level data collected in COUNTER Article Report 1 will be used as
the basis for the Usage Factor calculation
2. Usage Factors will be reported annually, for 2010/2011, 2011/2012, etc.
COUNTER Articles and Usage
Factor - implementation
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Step 1: implement COUNTER Code of Practice
for Articles
Step 2: Collect article-level usage data for
2014/2015
Step 3: Calculate and report Usage Factors
using protocols specified in Code of Practice for
Usage Factors