Usage Statistics for Oxford Journals Online Collection

[Ann Okerson <ann.okerson@yale.edu>]

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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:42:14 -0000
From: "TUCKER, Amy" <TuckerA@oup.co.uk>
Subject: Usage Statistics for Oxford Journals Online Collection

For immediate release 17 January 2003

Press release
Usage Statistics for Oxford Journals Online Collection

Oxford University Press (OUP) announces the availability of Usage
Statistics across their Online Journals collection in 2003.

Available both to consortia and individual organisations using one or more
titles from the Oxford Journals Online Collection, the reports can be
accessed online in HTML format or downloaded as .csv files providing
easier manipulation by library administrators.

"We have been pleased to work with some key librarians in order to develop
a set of reports that are applicable to both consortia and individual
organisations," says Richard Gedye, Sales and Marketing Director, "And we
are committed to becoming compliant with the COUNTER Code of Practice* at
the earliest opportunity".

The usage reports include data on downloads over time, title and page
type. Administrators can choose to look at accumulated accesses over time,
or view detailed information on articles and abstracts viewed during a
particular month.

"The new statistics package offers a tremendous benefit for consortia
subscribing to the Oxford Journals Online Collection", says Kathy Perry,
director of the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) consortium. "It enables
us to monitor usage on total articles downloaded across our entire
consortium at both the full consortial level and at the individual
institution level. These statistics will assist us in a number of ways,
including monitoring implementation at the local level and letting our
State legislators and funding agencies know how valuable these journals
are to our students and scholars."

Further information, along with a demonstration of the usage statistics
package is available at http://www.oupjournals.org/statistics

About Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is a department of the University of Oxford
in the United Kingdom.  It is the world's largest university press. It
publishes more than 4,500 new books a year, has a presence in over fifty
countries, and employs over 3,700 people worldwide. OUP is also a leading
publisher of academic journals in science, medicine, humanities and the
social sciences.  Its collection of some 170 online journals includes some
of the world's most highly cited and prestigious journals, in a broad
range of disciplines.
 
About  COUNTER

* COUNTER is an international initiative whose aim is to create an
internationally accepted, extensible Code of Practice for gathering and
display of online usage statistics. More information is available at
http://www.projectcounter.org


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Amy Tucker
Library Marketing Manager, Journals
Oxford University Press
Gt Clarendon St
Oxford, OX2 6DP
EMail: tuckera@oup.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 354420
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 353835

For information on the Oxford Journals Collection see
http://www.oupjournals.org