[Eril-l] COUNTER, video usage, "databases"

[Melissa Belvadi]

Just following up on this. ASP admits that they haven't actually completed their audit of COP5 yet, which means you can't count on their supposed "COUNTER" reports to actually be compliant.
This is a good time to remind everyone that Project COUNTER has a new easy "registry" of compliant providers, https://registry.projectcounter.org/

If a vendor you use is offering what they call COUNTER reports, but they are not in this list, they haven't yet confirmed via the audit process that they are actually compliant so you're taking your chances trying to use their data for collections decision-making.

By the way, if you do your own SUSHI COUNTER report harvesting, note that the new registry includes information about the provider's SUSHI requirements, eg which credentials are required and if they have any additional restrictions on access like volume or IP range restrictions on SUSHI requests.


Melissa Belvadi
Collections Librarian
University of Prince Edward Island
mbelvadi at upei.ca



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I recently noticed that video titles we have licensed individually from Alexander Street Press (what they call “Single Title Sales” or STS) were not included in their COUNTER reports. When I inquired about this problem, I was told that because the STS titles are not part of a “database”, they could not be included in the COUNTER reports. Here is how they summarized it 6 weeks after I posed the question:



The reason is that COUNTER only measures database usage, and Single Title purchases are not in a database.



Of course it’s nonsense that these titles are not part of a database—ASP couldn’t provide access to them without maintaining a database. But it sounds like by “database” they mean a subscription collection like Academic Video Online. So I replied that this might be true for DR-type reports, but I couldn’t understand why they’d be excluded from IR-type reports.



We’ve had a bit of back-and-forth. Is there anything to what they’re saying? Is there something in COUNTER that would make a vendor think they couldn’t provide access to titles from a platform purely because of the way the video was licensed to the library? I can’t find anything suggesting this in the documentation but could have missed it.





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Jeff Karlsen

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