Subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced that SwetsWise Online Content has been successfully audited for compliancy with Release 3 of the COUNTER Code of Practice. This audit means that COUNTER 3 compliant data can be downloaded directly within SwetsWise Online Content and is also available for analysis within SwetsWise Selection Support and the ScholarlyStats platforms.
SwetsWise Online Content contains an extensive collection of e-journals, with over 32 million searchable references and links to full-text articles. With more than 400 publishers now partnering in the portal and making their content available through it, SwetsWise Online Content has firmly established itself as the electronic gateway of choice among libraries and information centers worldwide.
COUNTER provides a set of standards for providing information about usage of online information products. It defines a set of rules for generating the reports and a set of rigorous tests for checking the compliancy of the implementation. Swets utilises the SUSHI (Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative) standard to provide XML usage reports within SwetsWise. This standard has been created by NISO (National Information Standards Organization) and is also known under the name Z39.93. SUSHI protocol allows the user to obtain the reports through a web service in a XML format which must be compliant to defined XML schemas.
COUNTER reports available in SwetsWise Online Content can be downloaded and scheduled. Customers can now download their COUNTER Journal Report 1 directly from SwetsWise Online Content and receive full, COUNTER 3 compliant data valid from October 1, 2009. COUNTER’s Consortium Report 1 has also been added to the existing Journal Reports 1, 3 and 4 already available within SwetsWise Online Content.
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