Re: IngentaSelect usage stats

["Michael Butterfield" <mbutterfield@bmjgroup.com>]

Just to clarify the situation, BMJ Publishing Group has ended its
agreement with Ingenta.  In recent years we only posted BMJ PG header data
on Ingenta and this then linked back to the full text on HighWire.

Usage data is available for subscribers through our HighWire sites and we
plan to make this compliant with COUNTER by the end of the year.

Hope this helps,

Michael Butterfield

Michelle Kraft wrote:

> I do know that BMJ provides statistics on their titles through Highwire.
> It could be that they would prefer that you get your statistics their way.
> I don't know.  The ability to get stats on Ingenta is relatively new.
> ___________________
> Michelle Kraft
> kraftm@ccf.org
>
> >>> mefunk@mail.med.cornell.edu 07/24/03 06:06PM >>>
>
> I recently downloaded our library's usage statisticss from IngentaSelect
> (standard statistics, not the advanced statistics). I had to inquire from
> IngentaSelect's help desk why many titles had "n/a" listed instead of a
> number or even zero. I was informed that this occurs for titles where the
> publisher has not agreed to their journal being included in the
> statistical reporting. Here is a breakdown of the number of times various
> publishers occured in our statistics:
>
> Taylor & Francis (all imprints): 35
> BMJ Publishing: 6
> Sage: 3
> Oxford University Press: 1
> Duke University Press: 1
> British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint surgery: 1
>
> Can anyone explain why publishers would not want us to have
> statistics on how often their journals are used?
> --
> Mark Funk
> mefunk@mail.med.cornell.edu