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MontglaneChess
For those of you who play with ERM, when it comes to evaluating COUNTER-type stats, do you place more weight on no. of searches, retrievals, or sessions? Alternately, if anyone has any good resources on evaluating statistics, you can just point me to that --so far I keep turning up COUNTER FAQ's mostly...which isn't helping.
June 19
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If I'm looking at A&I databases, then it's searches we use as the primary. I look at sessions, but no one else pays much attention to that. For aggregator databases we use full text downloads as the primary with searches as secondary. Of course, this is all in flux now that we've been using a discovery layer for a couple of years. We're still figuring out how to use the search and click-through stats from that (which are not COUNTER-compliant, as far as I know) in concert with the stats from the databases. Oh, and for journal packages we stick to full text downloads, since so much of the access to those comes through the discovery layers and databases rather than through direct searches in the publisher's interface.
- Kirsten
Thanks! I'm still picking up some of the terminology...would 'retrievals" be the same as 'full text downloads"? I'm mostly working with ProQuest right now and trying to make sense of the data.
- MontglaneChess
PQ should have some kind of FAQ that defines what they mean by "retrievals" (it may or may not be full text downloads). We look at all of it, but I usually focus more on searches and downloads than anything else.
- ~Courtney F
I've found a couple of pages on PQ datasets...no terminology definitions yet, but some it looks promising. Thanks for the idea.
- MontglaneChess
Any vendor with full text available and using COUNTER-compliant stats should have a Journal Report 1, which is defined as "Number of Successful Full-Text Article Requests." So if you're seeing "retrievals" on something that's claiming to be a JR1, you might make sure the report really is COUNTER-compliant, as that isn't a term COUNTER uses. That being said, the word "retrievals" can mean search results as well as full text downloads,
- Kirsten
Ah...therein lies the problem. It looks like ProQuest doesn't offer JR1 data. I guess I'll be sticking with 'searches' as my primary dataset.
- MontglaneChess
Sure they do. Here's what the screen looks like in the new interface: http://screencast.com/t... And here's the old: http://screencast.com/t...
- Kirsten
Wow, that's awesome, but weird. Because one of their official pages was saying they don't offer JR1 data. Guess they changed that and forgot to update the page I was looking at. We also get ours through a consortia, which I think was adding to my confusion. Thanks for the screenshots!
- MontglaneChess
We do get JR1 stats from Proquest via scholarlystats, PDF - https://www.scholarlystats.com/sstats...
- Yo. Shark Dog.