Release 3 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and Databases now published

The final version of Release 3 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and Databases has now been published on the COUNTER website at http://www.projectcounter.org/code_practice.html. The deadline date for implementation of this Release is 31 August 2009, giving vendors a full year to meet its specifications. After this date only those vendors compliant with [...]

EconStats

http://www.econstats.com/index.htm
For anyone looking for a vast cornucopia of economic statistics culled from all over the world, they need look no further than the EconStats website.
The homepage is a bit visually cluttered, but one couldn’t ask for better and more complete data, as visitors can quickly access a wide range of economic data from the United [...]

NISO Z39.7-2004: Information Services and Use: Metrics & statistics for libraries and information providers—Data Dictionary

http://www.niso.org/dictionary/
This standard identifies categories for basic library statistical data reported at the national level, and provides associated definitions of terms. In doing so it deals with the following areas: reporting unit and target population, human resources, collection resources, infrastructure, finances, and services. In addition, the standard identifies new measures associated with [...]

Academic Libraries: 2006 (US)

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2008/2008337.pdf
Selected Findings
Services
• During Fiscal year (FY) 2006, there were 144.1 million circulation transactions from academic
libraries’ general collection
• Academic libraries loaned 10.8 million documents to other libraries, and borrowed 10.3 million
documents from other libraries in FY 2006. In addition to the interlibrary loans,
academic libraries received 1.2 million documents from commercial services [...]

COUNTER Release 3 – News release

New Schedule for publication and implementation of Release 3 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and Databases
The draft Release 3of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and Databases http://www.projectcounter.org/r3/r3_release.pdf was published in March 2008; comments on it were accepted until 31 May 2008. During that period feedback from librarians [...]

LibStats: An open source online tool for collecting and reporting on statistics in an academic library

http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:135768
Jordan, Elizabeth (2008) LibStats: An open source online tool for collecting and reporting on statistics in an academic library
this is an article explaining the libstats package, with links to the installation requirements etc
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the development and practical applications of a highly configurable online tool [...]

Making Sense of E-Book Usage Data

Cox, John (2008) Making Sense of E-Book Usage Data. The Acquisitions Librarian 19 (3/4) [in press]. Preprint available at: http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/coxebooks.pdf

Methodology.co.uk

http://www.methodology.co.uk/
Methodology.co.uk is run by SAGE and will be a vital resource for anyone conducting qualitative or quantitative research and statistics.

Benchmarking electronic resources

November 2007 – May 2008
LISU is working with academic libraries in the 94 Group of universities to develop a methodology for benchmarking the provision and use of electronic resources. This covers those resources for which usage data compliant with the relevant COUNTER codes of practice are available.

Draft Release 3 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and Databases

Since the current Release 2 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and Databases was published in 2005, there has been not only a regular flow of requests from users for further enhancements, but also advances in technology that can either have an impact on the COUNTER usage statistics, or can be applied to [...]