COUNTER: Looking Ahead to Release 5 of the COUNTER Code of Practice |
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| Authors: | Oliver Pesch |
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| Institution: | EBSCO Information Services, Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA |
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| Abstract: | Since its first Code of Practice was published in 2003, setting the first international standard for reporting usage of scholarly content, Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources (COUNTER) has been continually refining the code of practice to meet the evolving needs of its library, publisher, and vendor membership. The latest release of the Code of Practice went into effect in early 2014 and introduced several improvements over the prior releases. Work is now underway on Release 5 of the COUNTER Code of Practice with a promise that it will provide further improvements to better report on usage of scholarly information in an ever-changing discovery and access environment. This column discusses current challenges and how Release 5 might address them. |
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| Keywords: | COUNTER SUSHI Usage Statistics |
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