Syndicated usage reporting and GetFTR

Earlier this year, we released best practice guidance about reporting usage of content that is syndicated and available on multiple platforms. Syndicated usage reports allow publishers to understand which syndication platforms are delivering return on investment. For libraries, syndicated usage reports deliver comprehensive metrics for a publisher’s content, regardless of the platform on which usage occurs.

The COUNTER and GetFTR teams have been working together over the last few months to ensure that publishers using GetFTR can easily share usage metrics in compliance with COUNTER’s best practice on syndicated usage reporting.

GetFTR now allows publishers to share their own internal Customer/Institution IDs in response to entitlement checks from syndication platforms, meeting COUNTER’s requirement that both parties “can guarantee that the authentication identifiers match exactly”.

COUNTER has today updated its best practice guidance on syndicated usage to reflect the new GetFTR functionality.

Dianne Benham, GetFTR Product Director, says:

“GetFTR powers a number of syndication arrangements, enabling syndication platforms to check entitlements directly with publishers that syndicate content.

As we recognize that usage data is a key part of the syndication solution, GetFTR has worked with ScienceDirect, Atypon and COUNTER, to enhance its entitlements checking API so that publishers can receive COUNTER-compliant off-platform usage data.

We’re happy to announce that GetFTR now has the capability to provide the publisher’s internal customer id in GetFTR entitlement responses. This enables syndication platforms to share COUNTER compliant usage data with publishers at the institution level, to consolidate on and off-platform usage.”

Learn more

You can find out more about COUNTER’s best practice guidance on syndicated usage here: https://www.countermetrics.org/code-of-practice/best-practice/

For more about GetFTR, visit: https://www.getfulltextresearch.com/