Hi Cliff,
Whilst I very much share and understand your frustration over the lack of meaningful ebook usage data, I think it only fair to point out that the JISC ebooks group began its pioneering work with e-books long before we had a draft code of practice for ebook stats. Indeed the final version of the code was only launched in March 2006 and if my memory serves me correctly it took us quite a while to build up a critical mass of COUNTER compliant ejournal suppliers, so these are still early days. As far as any new JISC Ebook deals are concerned, the JISC model licence for e-books does ask publishers to agree to make available COUNTER compliant uage stats - so we are certainly pushing this point home.
Jill
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>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Cliff Spencer
>Sent: 05 July 2007 13:23
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>Subject: [lib-stats] E-books revisited..
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>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?
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>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 ?
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>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.
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>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.
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>Also how does JISC fit in here? I looked at
>http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/archives/56
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>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?
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>Confused as ever.
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>C.
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