<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">As with COUNTER 4, that's not an obvious answer for everyone and every situation.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">First, separate out books, journals, and other media because the answers may be different for each.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">For journals that you accrue perpetual access rights for, you may want to take into account the YOP (year of publication) and calculate the cost per use only of the most recent year, or some recent years, or otherwise just the years tied to your paid subscription.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">You almost certainly want to start using the "unique" rather than "total" requests but understand that you're going to see a drop, larger for some vendors than others because of quirks in their platform design, over the R4 data, when using the "unique" data.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">For books, you need to think about whether use of individual chapters is relevant or the entire book. Probably most books you want the unique title requests. However, for reference books, a single user who uses multiple entries in a single session perhaps should count multiple times - that's up to your philosophy about licensing reference sources. In that case, you would want to look at "total item requests" rather than just "unique" ones.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">For products that are a mix of a lot of indexing with a lot but not 100% full text, like the EBSCO Academic Search series, you may also want to think about how to factor "investigations" counts into your "cost per use" decision. "Requests" only apply to full text. When your patrons view non-full text indexing records/abstracts, those count as "investigations" (for which there are also total and unique counts). Looking at an abstract may not be "worth as much" as getting a full text article, but presumably it has some value that contributes towards the price you pay.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Melissa Belvadi</div><div>Collections Librarian</div><div>University of Prince Edward Island</div><div><a href="mailto:mbelvadi@upei.ca" target="_blank">mbelvadi@upei.ca</a> 9<span style="font-size:12.8px">02-566-0581</span></div><div>my <a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=mbelvadi%40upei.ca&ctz=America/Halifax&mode=week" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">public calendar</a></div><div><a href="https://mbelvadi.youcanbook.me/" target="_blank">Make an appointment</a> via YouCanBookMe</div><div><br></div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 5:51 PM Kness, Kelsey <<a href="mailto:KKness@twu.edu">KKness@twu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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