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Excellent share, Evelyn. </div>
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I tend to agree, Beth. </div>
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I appreciate the resource, Melissa. We use Alma for our ILS and they are still using R4 reports. Hope they update soon. </div>
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Thanks, Debbie. </div>
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That would be useful, Cindy. </div>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Please see this response from Jo Cross, the Director of Research & Analytics here at T&F:</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB">When we set up reporting for our ebooks platform taylorfrancis.com we were advised by COUNTER to report full book downloads and view book online counts in BR1 and chapter downloads separately
in BR2. So for our platform, at least, you would <b>need to combine the results of both reports to get the full picture of usage</b>. We find that for most customers more usage is recorded in BR1 as users tend to prefer to download the entire book.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB">We believe that other publishers were given different advice by COUNTER at a different time and these publishers do roll all usage into their BR2 reports (often applying a multiplier for a full
book download equivalent to the number of chapters in the book). This means that our reports and theirs are not fully comparable, nor are our reports comparable to platforms which only offer chapter downloads, whereby a user would have to perform multiple
clicks if they required the whole book, generating multiple counts compared to the one count for a full book download.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB">The situation should be clearer in the COUNTER 5 data where the unique title request metric should be comparable across all publisher platforms, as it will count the number of unique titles
viewed within a user session regardless of whether the full book was downloaded or multiple individual chapters.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Eril-l <eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org> <b>On Behalf Of
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 10, 2019 10:26 AM<br>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">I think our usage is more accurate with BR2. But I do check BR1 as well to share with staff -- some are interested in the titles and subject matter being downloaded.
We will report it as necessary.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b><span style="color:black"> Eril-l <eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org> on behalf of Deborah L <deblenares@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 10, 2019 10:02 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> James C. Miller <millerjc@hollins.edu><br>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">I use BR2 (sections) to report on total use. I use BR1 (with a bit of clean up) to report on unique titles used.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 9:54 AM James C. Miller <<a href="mailto:millerjc@hollins.edu">millerjc@hollins.edu</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">I'm thinking of shifting away from collecting BR1 (title requests) and moving solely to providing BR2 (section/chapter requests) for annual reporting on eBook usage.</span></p>
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