Hi Satu,
I'm afraid your colleague is mostly right. A standard JR1 report contains
usage data for all of the publisher's/platform's journals. So that can
include access from non-subscribed titles due to such things as:
- hybrid Gold OA
- articles freely available for a limited time (e.g. marketing campaigns)
- post-termination access under expired subscriptions
- access granted in error
A publisher can go the extra mile and offer you a JR1 report for:
- Just the titles in a package, or
- Just the titles that you subscribe to
- Only titles with usage
But it is very common for a publisher's subscription fulfilment system to
be powered from a different data source to its usage system, so often they
can't slice the data up for you that way. That's also why you will
sometimes see discrepancies between the ISSNs in a COUNTER report and those
in a publisher's price list or in a subscription report.
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All the best,
Terry
On 5 December 2014 at 16:36, Satu Nieminen <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Here's a question for you. We were discussing the COUNTER JR1 report for
> eJournals with a colleague. I always thought that the JR1 report you get
> from a publisher's admin website once logged in with your admin credentials
> is ONLY a list of your subscriptions which in my view makes complete sense.
> My colleague thinks differently and I want people to confirm one or the
> other. They think that the report JR1 contains all the publisher's titles
> whether they are part of our subscriptions or not. I would very much
> appreciate a confirmation of one or the other as I am have been basing all
> my work in the years gone on the premise that JR1 is just the subscriptions
> of your institution.
>
> Thank you
>
> Satu
>
>
>
>
> Miss Satu Nieminen
>
> eResources Librarian
>
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