OK it's vacation time and most sensible folk are in their equivalent Gîtes de France, but I was wondering if anyone is pressing on with e-book data?
Attached our (NCL) titles. We're madly subscribing, but I'm not having much success getting usage data (I've given up hoping for COUNTER stats), for lots of our services. Anyone subscribing to the same stuff? Are you able to fill in the ?
Most usage reports are difficult to decipher. In the absence of COUNTER data, what are you using as a basic measure? My Indicator "Total Page Requests" is not universally reported (and not really very useful anyway), I thought that maybe "sessions" are one useful indicator if no "title/section Requests" available.
With publishers reluctant to go COUNTER, Can we build a useful set of basic measures outside of COUNTER? It'll be interesting to see how wrong these are if vendors convert to COUNTER.
Also how does JISC fit in here? I looked at http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/archives/56
Is this the basis of future JISC deals? If so only T&F (Informa) are COUNTER compliant. How come JISC can OK publishers who are not COUNTER savvy?
Confused as ever.
C.
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