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Open Access Usage Metrics

COUNTER is valuable in assessing OA usage! There is a real need to understand how the transition to OA is working, what makes it work and what is the impact of OA – all these require measurement and reporting, and COUNTER offers a consistent, credible, comparable method for doing so.

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Translations of the Friendly Guide to COUNTER for Open Access are also available, thanks to the generosity of members of the COUNTER community who provided funds and time to help us produce them.

Chinese translations were sponsored by SpringerNature
French translations were produced by the Couperin Consortium and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network
German translations were sponsored by Thieme
Japanese translations were produced by Yuimi Hlasten at Denison College
Spanish translations were sponsored by Gale

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Metrics

METRICS Usage, Search and Denials On this page you’ll find introductions to the three types…

Reports

REPORTS Four Reports, Multiple Standard Views This section outlines the Platform, Database, Title and Item…

Consortia

CONSORTIA Consortia Reporting There are three types of consortia reporting covered by the COUNTER Code…

Tech

Tech Attributes, Elements, and Other (Slightly) Techy Things Standards like COUNTER are inherently technical. For…

Using Reports

USING REPORTS Working With COUNTER Reports These guides offer an overview of the JSON and…

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