New PALS group on Usage Statistics

[Ann Okerson <aokerson@pantheon.yale.edu>]

Gill Chester of JISC sends the following message:

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From: Gill CHESTER <g.chester@jisc.ac.uk>
To: "'liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu'" <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Subject: New PALS group on Usage Statistics
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:42:54 +0100 

Following the Report of the Joint Funding Councils' Libraries Review Group
(1993) the Publishers Association, the Association of Learned and
Professional Society Publishers and JISC set up a group to discuss matters
of mutual interest.  This group became known as Publisher And Libraries
Solutions Committee (PALS).  In 1996 PALS meet for the first time and
agreed to establish five working groups to review issues ranging from
'Fair Dealing in Electronic Content' to 'Inter Library use of Digital
documents'.  These working groups were very successful and produced useful
reports.  Continuing on this success, the JISC/PA group agreed to
establish a new group to look at 'Usage Statistics' .  The group is
chaired by Richard Gedye and is made up of representatives from UK
academic libraries and publishers.  The aim of this group is to develop a
code of practice for vendor based electronic journal usage statistics.
This will include which data elements should be measured, possible report
outputs, the measuring of remote usage of licensed products and usage via
cache and mirrors
 
Further details can be found at
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/curriss/collab/c6_pub/#uswg

Copies of previous report produced by the first set of JISC/PA groups can
be found at

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/curriss/collab/#c6