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<div dir="auto">Titles that we have uploaded ourselves have Counter usage, so I don't know why they would say that.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 19, 2021 09:25, "Karlsen, Jeffrey" <KarlseJ@scc.losrios.edu> wrote:<br type="attribution">
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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:</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.</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.</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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jeff Karlsen</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Technical Services Librarian</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sacramento City College</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">916-558-2583</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:KarlseJ@scc.losrios.edu">KarlseJ@scc.losrios.edu</a></p>
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