Re: The creeping erosion of the COUNTER Code of Practice is not accept

[Kirsty Meddings <kirsty.meddings@ingenta.com>]

Dear Bernd-Christoph,

IngentaConnect usage reports will be COUNTER 2 compliant very 
soon, and in the meantime we have removed the outdated references 
to COUNTER-compliance from our marketing materials.  I can assure 
you that this has been a matter of oversight rather than an 
attempt to falsely claim compliance with Release 2.

I also wish to reassure list readers that IngentaConnect usage 
data is accurate and correct, but does not currently conform to 
the COUNTER standards because we do not split out HTML from PDF 
article downloads.  We are making changes to our reports to add 
these fields and hope to appear on the list of compliant vendors 
again very soon.

Best wishes,

Kirsty Meddings
Product Development Manager
IngentaConnect
Phone: +44 (0)1865 397800
Direct: +44 (0)1865 397838

http://www.ingentaconnect.com
IngentaConnect: the home of scholarly research


bernd-christoph.kaemper@ub.uni-stuttgart.de wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> It is not acceptable that large vendors like Ingenta, Swets and 
> Wiley for their usage statistics refer to the COUNTER Code of 
> Practice and claim to be COUNTER compliant although they have 
> missed to adapt to Release 2 valid since January 2006 and 
> thereby are noncompliant now for more than a year.
>
> Three examples:
>
> Ingenta:
>
> Library Services Overview
>
> > http://www.ingentaconnect.com/download/ingentaconnect/Library_services_summary.pdf
> - COUNTER, SUSHI and OpenURL compliant
> How to ... download free COUNTER-Compliant Usage Statistics
> > http://www.ingentaconnect.com/about/librarians/resourcezone/howto_counter
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