Dr. Peter Shepherd, Director in an email to Librarians writes: "COUNTER Articles provides a standard that enables any organization hosting journal articles to report in a credible, consistent and compatible way the usage of these articles to authors, their institutions and their funding organizations. It also enables vendors to consolidate usage of articles on different platforms into a global usage total."
Tuesday, 25 March 2014
New Code of Practice for article level metrics.
COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources0) is an organsitation that endeavours to establish standards for counting usage across platforms and publishers. More and more publishers are becoming COUNTER compliant. COUNTER has just published its Code of Practice for counting article level usage.
Dr. Peter Shepherd, Director in an email to Librarians writes: "COUNTER Articles provides a standard that enables any organization hosting journal articles to report in a credible, consistent and compatible way the usage of these articles to authors, their institutions and their funding organizations. It also enables vendors to consolidate usage of articles on different platforms into a global usage total."
Dr. Peter Shepherd, Director in an email to Librarians writes: "COUNTER Articles provides a standard that enables any organization hosting journal articles to report in a credible, consistent and compatible way the usage of these articles to authors, their institutions and their funding organizations. It also enables vendors to consolidate usage of articles on different platforms into a global usage total."
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