| Tuesday,
May 6th
COUNTER BRIEFINGS — Reliable and Consistent
Electronic Journal Use Statistics
Co-Sponsored
by COUNTER: Counting Online Use Of Networked Library Resources
and Scholarly Communication Institute
Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island
University
COUNTER for Publishers and Intermediaries — 10:30 a.m. –
12:30 p.m.
$65
registration fee. (Click
here to register.)
COUNTER for Librarians
—
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Open to all InfoToday 2003 conference attendees, exhibitors, and
exhibit hall attendees.
Reliable
usage statistics have long been a Holy Grail for librarians and
publishers alike. Plan now to 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. 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.
Moderator:
Michael Koenig, Dean, Palmer School of Library
and Information Science, Long Island University
Speakers:
Peter Shepherd, COUNTER
David Goodman, Princeton University & Palmer School of
Library and Information Science, Long Island University
Representatives from the publishing and library communities to
be announced.
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