Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest, US, has announced the launch of the 360 Counter e-resource assessment service. 360 Counter helps libraries evaluate the usage and cost of e-resources to optimise the value of electronic collections.
360 Counter aggregates Project COUNTER usage reports, incorporates costs, calculates cost-per-click per title, and compares content providers. Its reporting tools then enable users to custom-tailor cost and usage reports for in-depth analysis of e-resources that facilitate better collection-development decisions. 360 Counter reduces the time required to process and analyse usage data from COUNTER-compliant reports. It aggregates report data, inserts costs, associates subjects, normalises titles, calculates costs, and automates data in e-collection reports received from content providers for analysis and reporting. These reports can easily be exported and archived for historical perspective.
As with other Serials Solutions 360 services, 360 Counter is integrated with the authoritative Serials Solutions knowledgebase, which provides normalised journal titles and holdings data for accurate analysis. In addition, 360 Counter retrieves local e-resource cost information from Serials Solutions 360 Resource Manager for cost-per-use reporting.
Initial implementations of Serials Solutions 360 Counter will be available to users beginning November 30.
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