[Eril-l] use stats - COUNTER 3 to COUNTER 4 experience

[Lingley, Dean R]

Hi Bin,
I agree that the search counts for DB reports are not a surprise, but the full-text counts for the JR1’s was a surprise for us.  Our full-text views for Ebsco had big drops after abandoning Metalib.  After doing some research we realized it was the Full-text HTML views that went down substantially while the PDF full-text views only dropped slightly (90% vs 8%) and from these results I have surmised that any full-text that was delivered to Metalib as a part of the set of search result set was counted as a full-text view.   Has anyone else who used Metalib prominently (It was the default search on our library web page) with Ebsco In a default quickset seen any similar stat differences for JR1’s from Ebsco after moving from Metalib?

Sorry to get off topic slightly from the counter version change, but the change in stats related to Ebsco and Metalib is very fresh in my mind.



From: Zhang, Bin [mailto:bzhang at csus.edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 1:31 PM
To: Lingley, Dean R; eril-l at lists.eril-l.org<mailto:eril-l at lists.eril-l.org>
Subject: RE: [Eril-l] use stats - COUNTER 3 to COUNTER 4 experience

That’s not a surprise at all.  MetaLib searches databases in real time, and they are counted by the publisher.  Primo and other discovery tools, get metadata from publishers and indexes the content locally, so end user searches in these tools never reaches publishers, thus cannot be counted by publishers.

Libraries will need to rely on the usage captured by their discovery systems for usage.

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From: Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org] On Behalf Of Lingley, Dean R
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 10:24 AM
To: eril-l at lists.eril-l.org<mailto:eril-l at lists.eril-l.org>
Subject: Re: [Eril-l] use stats - COUNTER 3 to COUNTER 4 experience

We noticed a large drop in Ebsco stats when we moved from Metalib to Primo in late 2012 early 2013.  I think I have attributed it to the way metalib searches were counted in Metalib, with full-text HTML views perhaps being counted when search results were sent to Metalib.  No way to really prove it though than just seeing the large drop in HTML views without a corresponding large drop in PDF views.

Has anyone who has seen a drop also switched from Metalib?

Thanks,
Dean



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