Chapter 2: Standards, Tools, and Other Products
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5860/ltr.46n6Abstract
Standards, tools, and other products have emerged to assist librarians and researchers in their efforts to measure electronic resource use. This section briefly outlines vendor products available on the market as well as standards and projects that seek to improve protocols for the transfer and management of usage statistics.
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“About COUNTER,” COUNTER website, www.projectcounter.org/about.htmln“Usage-Based Measurements of Journal Quality: Research Project Enters Its Second Stage,” UKSG website, www.uksg.org/usagefactorsn“Announcing PIRUS 2: A Project to Develop Practical Standards for Recording and Reporting Online Usage at the Individual Article Level,” news release, Oct. 23, 2009, COUNTER website, www.projectcounter.org/documents/NewsRelease23October2009.docn“PIRUS2: Publisher and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics,” COUNTER website, News & Activities page, www.projectcounter.org/news.htmlnPeter Shepherd, “PIRUS: Publisher and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics” (presentation given during “Statistics and Metrics” session, ICOLC 11th Fall Meeting, Paris, France, Oct. 25–28, 2009), slide 2; slides available online at www.projectcounter.org/documents/ICOLCEuropeOct2009.pptnIbid., slide 4.nOliver Pesch, “Project COUNTER and SUSHI: An Overview” (presentation, NFAIS Forum: Online Usage Statistics: Current Status and Future Directions, Philadelphia, PA, Oct. 27, 2006), slide 13; slides available online at www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi/info/NFAIS-COUNTER-SUSHI.pptnn
