Accessible Archives, Inc., a publisher of electronic full-text searchable historical databases, has announced that usage statistics for its collections will become available April 1, 2015 using the new COUNTER Release 4 (R4) standards.
Scholarly iQ, a provider of eBusiness solutions to the academic publishing market, is the new vendor providing the reporting and data management services. This upgraded capability provides an extra benefit for Accessible Archives' customers, utilising the latest version of the agreed international set of standards and protocols governing the recording and exchange of such online usage data to ensure independent reporting of publishers' usage statistics.
This agreement was coordinated through Unlimited Priorities LLC, a firm specialising in support for small and medium-size companies in the information and publishing industries.
A complete list of the new features contained in COUNTER Release 4 standards is available. Among these are a single, integrated Code of Practice covering journals, databases, books, reference works and multimedia content ; enhancements of the SUSHI (Standardised Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative) protocol designed to facilitate its implementation by vendors and its use by librarians; an expanded Database Report 2, which now includes 'access denied: content item not licenced', in addition to the 'Turnaways' (access denied: simultaneous/concurrent user licence limit exceeded) covered in earlier Releases ; and modified Database Reports, in which the previous requirement to report Session counts has been dropped, and new requirements, to report Record Views and Result Clicks, have been added. (Database Report 3 has also been renamed Platform Report 1).
