COUNTER website now live

["Gillingham, Emily" <Emily.Gillingham@blacksci.co.uk>]

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The COUNTER website is now live at http://www.projectCounter.org

COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources) is a
new, multi-agency project whose objective is to develop a single,
internationally accepted Code of Practice that will allow the usage of
online information products and services to be measured more effectively.
This will make it possible to compare usage across journals and databases
from different publishers.

The COUNTER website provides a source of up-to-date information on the
project, as well as a list of Founding Sponsors and Steering Group
members.

COUNTER is actively supported by the international community of librarians
and publishers, and by their professional organisations, including:

AAP, Association of American Publishers
ALPSP, The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
ARL, Association of Research Libraries
ASA, Association of Subscription Agents and Intermediaries
BIC/EDItEUR
JISC, Joint Information Systems Committee
NCLIS, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
NISO, National Information Standards Organization
PA, The Publishers Association
STM, International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers
UKSG, United Kingdom Serials Group

The development of COUNTER is being supervised by a Steering Group chaired
by Richard Gedye of Oxford University Press. The Project Director,
responsible for day-to-day management is Peter Shepherd
(pshepherd@projectCounter.org), who should be contacted for further
information.

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