May 6 Counter Briefing at New York InfoToday 2003

[David Goodman <dgoodman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>]

                          InfoToday 2003
National Online 2003   *  KnowledgeNets 2003  * E-Libraries 2003

COUNTER BRIEFING ON ELECTRONIC JOURNAL USE STATISTICS
Tuesday, May 6, 2003			New York Hilton & Towers

COUNTER for Publishers and Intermediates
COUNTER for Librarians

	co-sponsored by:
Institute For Scholarly Communication,
Palmer School Of Library And Information Science, Long Island University.
        and by:
COUNTER: Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources

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Reliable and Consistent Electronic Resource Use Statistics

Reliable usage statistics have long been a Holy Grail for librarians and
publishers alike. Attend one of these special briefings to hear about
significant progress on this issue of great interest to the library
community. As of January 2003, the first standardized and widely-supported
code of practice for reliable, consistent, and audited use statistics for
online journals and other resources, the COUNTER Code of Practice, has
been distributed to the publishing and library communities. By April,
2003, several publishers have announced that they have already begun
providing statistics according to this code. What are the implications?

COUNTER serves librarians, vendors, and intermediaries by facilitating the
recording and exchange of online usage statistics. To have their usage
statistics and reports designated "COUNTER-compliant," vendors must
provide usage statistics that conform to the Code of Practice. Publishers,
intermediaries, and librarians will want to familiarize themselves with
this code, which is being widely adopted by major publishers, and is
supported by many major U.S. and U.K. organizations, including the
Association of American Publishers, Association of Research Libraries,
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, National
Information Standards Organization, and many others.

The COUNTER Code of Practice can be found at
www.projectcounter.org/code_practice.html

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COUNTER for Publishers and Intermediaries
10:30 AM-12:30 AM  Tues., May 6

$65 Registration Fee. Register at www.infotoday.com, or call 800-300-9868

Moderator:
Michael Koenig,
Dean,
Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University.

Speakers:

Peter Shepherd, COUNTER:
The COUNTER project and the new standards for publishers on usage statistics

Daviess Menefee, Elsevier
How a  commercial publisher is planning for COUNTER

Barbara H. Lange, IEEE
How a professional organization publisher is planning for COUNTER

David Goodman,
Princeton Univ. Library & Palmer School of Library and Information Science
How libraries will use COUNTER

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COUNTER for Librarians
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
No registration fee;
open to all InfoToday attendees, exhibitors, and exhibit hall attendees

Moderator:
Michael Koenig,
Dean,
Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University.

Speakers:

Peter Shepherd, COUNTER:
COUNTER: Current Status and Importance

Jennifer Weintraub, Yale University Library
The value of COUNTER for large research libraries

Pauline Rothstein,
Ramapo College Library, & Palmer School of Library and Information
Science
The value of COUNTER for smaller libraries

David Goodman,
Princeton Univ. Library & Palmer School of Library and Information Science
Future directions for COUNTER and use statistics