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Foundation Class 11: Platform Reports
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Foundation Class 11: Platform Reports
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Language: EN.
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Welcome to this 10th counter foundation class in this class, we're looking at the COUNTER Platform Reports and how to use them. Many librarians have told us that they want a simple, top level usage report, counter release five platform reports are compact reports which provide this overview. All publishers and vendors must provide a platform master report.
These show activity across all metrics for entire platforms. In release, five, there are two reports that provide information about platform usage. The platform master report, or pr, which can be filtered according to user needs and has one standard view or platform usage. Pr P1. The platform master report has five column headings platform the name of the publishers or vendors, platform data type, which tells us about the type of content used access method, which tells us if the purpose of the access was for regular use or text and data mining metric type, which identifies the nature of the usage.
For example, a search or a request for content reporting period total, which is a total of usage by metric type for all months covered by the report. Please note that this element does not appear in the version of the report retrieved using sushi. Month and year indicated by. Y why, why, why? For example, mar 2020 is a series of columns with usage for each month covered by the report.
Note that in the sushi version of this report, it is represented by begin and end date elements for each month. In the platform must report there are two optional elements or columns, notably data type and access method. These columns will only be included if you request them, and if included, they must be listed in attributes to show in the report attributes header.
Please note that it is not optional for publishers and vendors to provide the data simply that you can choose not to request them. Platform usage PR_P1 is a standard view of the platform master report. That is, it is a pre scanned subset of the master report and is a very compact report with only four mandatory column headings. Platform metric type reporting period, total and month and year.
Most of the headers and the platform master report are familiar, but it is worth taking a look at two of them in more detail. Data Type, this tells us about the type of content item used, for example, a book or a journal. The second header is access method. This tells us if the content was crawled by software, by prior agreement between a provider and a researcher, or if the content was used by a person.
There are two access methods in counter release. Five regular means the usage was by a person, while TDM means robotic use. In the case of counter, robotic use does not mean bad robotic use is included in the reports. That type of use has always filtered out. Simply, that the robot use was agreed between the publisher or vendor and a researcher in your faculty.
To recap, the platform must have report shows activity across a provider's platforms and allows you to apply filters and select other configuration options. Seven metric types are reported, such as platform total item investigations, total item requests, unique item investigations, unique item requests, unique title investigations and unique title requests. Foundation class one explains in detail the meaning of all these metrics, except for searches platform.
Such as platform only applies to platform reports, and it captures searches conducted by users at the platform level. Each user initiated search can only be counted once, regardless of the number of databases involved in the search. This is a sample of a platform master report. You can see the report attributes shown include data types and access method.
So what are the headlines? What does this report tell us about usage in the three months from March to june? There were 25,511 searches across the platform searches platform is the metric type giving us this information? There were 12,100 unique journal articles requested based on the unique item requests metric. 378 unique book titles were requested based on the unique title requests, and all of the access methods were regular.
There were no TDM accesses. Unique item requests is the metric that ensures there is no double counting when a user accesses more than one version of an article or a book chapter. For example, if a user views the HTML version of an article or a book chapter and then in the same session, downloads the PDF of the same article or book chapter, the counts would be total item requests to unique item requests.
One unique title requests is a metric that only applies to books because books can be delivered as chapters or as an entire book. So to take an example, if a user downloads three chapters from the same book in the same session, the counts are total item requests. Three unique item requests three. Unique title requests one. The only standard view for the platform report is the PR P1.
This gives us a pared down view showing only four metric types, such as platform total item requests, unique item requests. And unique title requests. Foundation class one provides more information about these metrics. Here is a sample of the PR P1 standard view. Here are the headlines. There were 25,511 searches across the platform based on searches platform 13,036 content items were requested in total across both books and journals.
Based on the total item requests metric 10,271 unique content items were requested across books and journals based on unique item requests. And finally, 378 unique book titles were requested, 378 unique book titles were requested based on the unique title requests metric. We hope that you have found this Foundation Class useful. Please explore our YouTube channel to find other classes in the series.
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