COUNTER 5 Platform Reports
COUNTER 5 Platform Master Report (PR)¶
Definition¶
Platform Reports provide a summary of activity on a given platform to support the evaluation of platforms and to provide high-level statistical data to support surveys and reporting to funders.
Host_types required to provide PR report¶
All Host_Types:
A&I Database (Abstracting & Indexing Database)
Aggregated Full Content
Data Repository
Discovery Service
eBook
eBook Collection
eJournal
Full Content Database
Multimedia
Multimedia Collection
Repository
Scholarly Collaboration Network
Data_Types¶
All applicable
Metric_Types¶
All applicable
Header of PR report (explanation)¶
Example of PR report¶
Standard views¶
PR report only has one standard view - Platform Usage - PR_P1, which provides platform usage summarized by Metric_Type.
PR_P1¶
Definition¶
Platform-level usage summarized by Metric_Type.
Host_types required to provide PR_P1 report¶
All Host_Types:
A&I Database (Abstracting & Indexing Database)
Aggregated Full Content
Data Repository
Discovery Service
eBook
eBook Collection
eJournal
Full Content Database
Multimedia
Multimedia Collection
Repository
Scholarly Collaboration Network
Data_Types¶
All applicable
Metric_Types¶
Total_Item_Requests
Unique_Item_Requests
Unique_Title_Requests
Searches_Platform
Example of PR_P1 report¶
Summary table¶
This table summarizes the attributes and metrics of the respective reports. Mandatory Metrics and Host_Types are highlighted in bold.
