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<p class="MsoNormal">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:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">The reason is that COUNTER only measures database usage, and Single Title purchases are not in a database.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jeff Karlsen<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Technical Services Librarian<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sacramento City College<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">916-558-2583<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:KarlseJ@scc.losrios.edu">KarlseJ@scc.losrios.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pronouns: he/him<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://scc.losrios.edu/library">https://scc.losrios.edu/library</a>
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