[Eril-l] [EXTERNAL] Chapter usage interest from librarians? Question about BMJ posting

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Sorry for the double-post but I just checked my COP5.1 data and at least a few vendors are providing chapter data in their IRs for 5.1.
They are data_type = 'Book_Segment'. and the Item is the chapter title and Parent_Title is the book title (other Parent fields add more data).
Among UPEI's vendors, these are the ones I can find so far this year. Sadly, none of our largest ebook platforms are providing this data (yet).

ASME
CABI
Duke-Euclid
GeoScienceWorld
MIT-Press
McGraw-Hill-Medical
PsychiatryOnline
University-of-Toronto



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A book provider could choose to provide chapter level data with the actual chapter names using the IR report.

It wouldn't be in the IR_A1 which is just journal articles, or the IR_M1 which is just multimedia titles.
But it could be in the "master" IR, which is described in the COP5.1<https://cop5.countermetrics.org/en/5.1.0.1/04-reports/04-item-reports.html> <https://cop5.countermetrics.org/en/5.1.0.1/04-reports/04-item-reports.html> as:
"A granular, customizable report showing activity at the level of the item (article, chapter, media object, etc.) that allows the user to apply filters and select other configuration options."

If there's more interest in this, we could ask COUNTER Metrics (the organization) to consider adding a "IR_B1" for book chapters, although that probably wouldn't be possible until 5.2 in several years.

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Hi Melissa,

I also find that to be an interesting statement... I mean, I've definitely peeked at the chapter/section level usage for fun (i.e. I've put "unique_item_requests" for eBooks alongside "unique_title_requests" to see any correlation between uses), but I don't utilize that usage to make acquisition decisions.

I think Chapter usage could be interesting if a report would show the actual Chapter Titles because then I could see if the same exact chapter is being accessed by 100+ students (maybe for a course) or if the usage of the book is pretty widespread across different chapters.
Definitely interested in reading other perspectives on this.

Erika Boardman
UNC Charlotte

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BMJ customer contacts recently got an e-newsletter that included a link to this "Q&A":

https://bmjinsiders.com/2025/09/26/the-move-to-counter-5-1-questions-from-the-road/

It included this interesting claim: "So, instead of just counting the whole book, librarians are focusing more on how individual chapters or sections are used. This gives a much clearer picture of which parts of a book are most popular."

I am really curious to know of librarians who really do want to know this chapter-level usage, and how it could be useful to know "which parts of a book are most popular", since we thus far are not offered an option to purchase/license just parts of books.

And it just so happens that emphasizing chapter usage figures makes for much larger total usage numbers, which I can imagine a publisher would use to try to sell more books.
Call me cynical, but I would genuinely like to hear more from librarians who really do something useful with chapter level usage data.

Thanks!


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