This will be of interest to other lists too. COUNTER follows from the work
started by the PALS Usage Statistics Working Group.
Ian Winship
Northumbria University
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From: Gillingham, Emily [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
To: [log in to unmask]
The COUNTER website is now live at http://www.projectCounter.org
COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources) is a new,
multi-agency project whose objective is to develop a single, internationally
accepted Code of Practice that will allow the usage of online information
products and services to be measured more effectively. This will make it
possible to compare usage across journals and databases from different
publishers.
The COUNTER website provides a source of up-to-date information on the
project, as well as a list of Founding Sponsors and Steering Group members.
COUNTER is actively supported by the international community of librarians
and publishers, and by their professional organisations, including:
AAP, Association of American Publishers
ALPSP, The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
ARL, Association of Research Libraries
ASA, Association of Subscription Agents and Intermediaries
BIC/EDItEUR
JISC, Joint Information Systems Committee
NCLIS, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
NISO, National Information Standards Organization
PA, The Publishers Association
STM, International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers
UKSG, United Kingdom Serials Group
The development of COUNTER is being supervised by a Steering Group chaired
by Richard Gedye of Oxford University Press. The Project Director,
responsible for day-to-day management is Peter Shepherd
([log in to unmask]), who should be contacted for further
information.
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