Usage Statistics of Online Journals and Databases

• Project COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources) - an international initiative designed to serve librarians, publishers and intermediaries by facilitating the recording and exchange of online usage statistics - including Code of Practice for Journals and Databases (April 2005) and Code of Practice for Books and Reference Works (March 2006)


• Project COUNTER Compliant Vendors


• Guidelines for Statistical Measures of Usage of Web-Based indexed, Abstracted, and Full Text resources - by International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) - updated December 2001


• Guidelines for Technical Issues in Request for Proposal (RFP) Requirements and Contract Negotiations - by International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) - January 1999

Latest updates:

• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts - 05/23/2008
• Classical Music Library - 02/27/2008
• Scitation Databases - 02/26/2008
• CAS SciFinder Scholar - 02/25/2008
• ScienceDirect - 02/19/2008
• Emerald Publications - 02/19/2008
• Oxford University Press Journals - 02/19/2008
• Oxford University Press Databases - 02/18/2008
• Vanderbilt News Archive - 02/06/2008
• AMS Publications - 02/06/2008
• GSA Journals - 02/06/2008
• JSTOR - 02/06/2008
• FirstSearch Databases - 01/30/2008 - Excel files only!
• MetaPress Publications - 01/30/2008
• ISI Web of Knowledge Databases - 01/29/2008
• Blackwell-Synergy Publications - 01/15/2008