Scientific publisher RSC Publishing, UK, the publishing arm of the Royal Society of Chemistry, can now provide customers with COUNTER 3 compliant journal usage statistics, as the result of a new service delivered by MPS Technologies. RSC Publishing claims to be the first chemistry publisher to announce the availability of COUNTER 3 statistics for its journal customers.
RSC journal customers will now be able to access their reports via MPS Insight, the new service from MPS Technologies for providing usage reports to librarians on behalf of publishers. MPS Insight provides an easy-to-use interface and greater flexibility for users. The objectives of the new COUNTER release are to improve the reliability of COUNTER usage reports; to provide tools to facilitate consolidation, management and analysis of COUNTER usage statistics; and to improve COUNTER usage reports for consortia.
An important part of version 3 of the Code of Practice for journals is the provision of SUSHI (Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative) as a method of delivery, enabling libraries to automate the retrieval of reports into local systems. Consortia administrators can also access both consolidated and individual member sites' statistics.
