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Re: A COUNTER concern.

Jan Velterop writes

> COUNTER is also not very satisfactory for open access journals. The
> best it can provide is the MINIMUM number of downloads an article
> has had. This is because open access articles are available from a
> multitude of servers and repositories, and not only from the
> publisher's own site (which is the only one COUNTER counts,
> presumably).

If your articles are available on multiple servers, you should work with
the providers of such servers to unite the usage data. The RePEc digital
library does this with its LogEc service. It combines the logs from
various RePEc user services. See http://logec.hhs.se.

Cheers,

Thomas Krichel                      mailto:krichel@openlib.org
                                 http://openlib.org/home/krichel
                             RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel