Getting Started with COUNTER Statistics
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The document outlines a post-conference workshop focused on utilizing COUNTER release 4 reports, including data manipulation, best practices, and various report types such as journal and database reports. It emphasizes the importance of proper data management techniques, including naming conventions and the use of master files in Excel. Additionally, it discusses the integration of other data sources and presents cost analysis strategies related to library statistics.
Getting Started with COUNTER Statistics
- 1. Getting Started with COUNTER Statistics Post-conference Workshop NASIG 2015
- 2. Outline for our day • Introductions • Practice Excel skills • Review COUNTER release 4 reports • Look at data before and during manipulation • Discuss best practices • Build our skills
- 3. Library Statistics go beyond COUNTER • Circ stats • Cost data • Gate counts • Volumes counts • Proxy logs • Google Analytics • And more
- 4. Jen’s assumptions • You can find your COUNTER reports • We will not be talking about working with statistical packages or tools beyond Excel • We’re only interested in release 4 • You will stop me with questions
- 5. Tips or best practices • Have one place for master files • Develop a naming convention • Do not work with your master spreadsheet • Look at your data before doing any manipulations • Keep notes • Steps taken • Thought processes • Document decisions
- 6. Excel Let’s practice with 2010 federal STEM Education
- 7. Release 4 of COUNTER Code of Practice • Released April 2012 • Supersedes Release 3 of the Code of Practice for Journals and Databases • Supersedes Release 1 of the Code of Practice for Books and Reference Works • Deadline for implementation was 12/31/13
- 8. Counter Usage Reports • 23 different reports included in Release 4 • 13 are required for compliance
- 10. Journal Report 1 GOA
- 11. Journal Report 1a (optional)
- 12. Let’s look at some actual reports Please open Publisher E JR1 Finding outliers
- 13. Paid Use JR1 – JR1 GOA = paid use Publisher D: Open JR1 first then JR1 GOA
- 14. Front File Use JR1 – JR1a = front file use Publisher C: Open JR1 first then JR1a
- 15. Total Use JR1 + JR1 from aggregator = total use Publisher B JR1 Provider H JR1
- 16. Journal Report 2
- 17. Journal Report 5
- 18. Practice time! Publisher C: Open JR1 first then JR2 next we’ll look at JR5 and maybe JR1a
- 19. Database Report 1 Results Click: A click originating from a set of search results. Record View: A successful request for a database record that has originated from a set of search results, from browsing the database, or from a click on another database record.
- 20. A visual to help … http://www.slideshare.net/AthenaHoeppner/e xplaining-counter4
- 25. Practice with use curves Provider K DB1
- 26. Comparisons with usage data • Please be careful! • Like with like sounds easy enough … • Consider size • Database • Program or population • Benchmarking
- 27. Book Report 1 or 2
- 28. Book Report 3
- 29. Book Report 4
- 30. Book Report 5
- 31. Working with book reports • What are you trying to answer? • Are only books that get use worth having? • Packages vs. single title acquisition vs. DDA Publisher P BR2 Publisher P BR3
- 32. Multimedia Report 1 or 2
- 33. Practice with multimedia reports Publisher S MR1 Publisher S MR2 Publisher S PR1
- 34. Other optional reports • Journal Report 3 • Journal Report 3 Mobile • Journal Report 4 • Title Report 1 • Title Report 2 • Title Report 3 • Title Report 3 Mobile
- 35. Working with COUNTER data Routine • On what schedule? • Create reports? • Do you need other data in addition to COUNTER? Answer specific question • From whom? • For a purpose? • Timeline?
- 36. Bringing in other data sources • Corroborate • Proxy logs • Google Analytics • Troubleshooting logs • Subscription cycles • Payment data
- 38. Journal level cost per use Publisher B JR1
- 39. Database level cost per use Publisher S DB1
- 40. Cost per use and the “big deal” Two ways to figure: 𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑠𝑒 and 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑓𝑒𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑢𝑠𝑒
- 41. Should we continue with a big deal from Publisher Y? We have: • Publisher Y JR1 • Publisher Y JR1 GOA • Publisher Y JR1a • Publisher Y JR5 • Provider H JR1 • Payment data • There are no turnaways
- 42. Sources for more information COUNTER Code of Practice http://www.projectcounter.org/code_practice.html Usus http://www.usus.org.uk/