Usage Statistics of Online Journals and Databases

NISO COUNTER and Usage Data: A Two-Part Webinar - this web seminar will introduce librarians to COUNTER reports, definitions and formats. Hosted in partnership with COUNTER, the session will provide an opportunity for librarians to become acquainted with standard usage reports and data sets.

SUSHI - Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative - defines an automated request and response model for the harvesting of electronic resource usage data utilizing a Web services framework. It is intended to replace the time-consuming user-mediated collection of usage data reports.

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:

Engineering Village 2 - 10/30/2009
Nature Publications - 10/29/2009
IEE / IEEE Journals - 10/29/2009
Scitation Databases - 08/13/2009
Engineering Village 2 - 08/13/2009
Nature Publications - 08/12/2009
IEE / IEEE Journals - 08/12/2009
EBSCOhost - 06/02/2009
Project MUSE - 05/29/2009
e-Duke Collection - 05/29/2009
LexisNexis Databases - 05/28/2009
OUP Journals - 5/27/2009
JSTOR - 5/26/2009
Journal of Clinical Psychiatry - 5/20/09
Chadwyck-Healey Databases - 5/19/2009
CSIRO Journals - 05/07/2009
Emerald Publications - 05/05/2009
GSA Journals - 05/05/2009
Vanderbilt News Archive - 05/04/2009