Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP), UK, has announced that librarians with subscriptions to IOP Publishing titles can now access COUNTER Release 3 results, via a new interface called MPS Insight, ahead of the compulsory deadline of August 2009. MPS Insight is a new service that has passed an independent COUNTER audit to provide the new reports required by COUNTER Release 3.
The new interface allows librarians to access reports through a much more user-friendly system. Librarians will also benefit from the functionality to retrieve reports via SUSHI in addition to the familiar CSV spreadsheets. This allows libraries with SUSHI enabled ERM systems to automate report collection.
MPS Insight, a service delivered by MPS Technologies, is seen to offer an attractive, easy-to-use interface, allowing customers to make real-time changes to accounts and create additional user accounts for non-library staff. The service is claimed to have been very well received by a group of librarians invited to beta test the new service; over 96 percent rated MPS Insight as "easy" or "very easy to use".
