From: "Gillingham, Emily - Oxford" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:22:59 +0100

--Release 1 of the PIRUS Code of Practice for recording and reporting
usage at the individual article level now published--

The final, definitive version of Release 1 of the PIRUS Code of
Practice for recording and reporting usage at the individual article
level has now been published and may be accessed on the PIRUS page of
the COUNTER website at:  http://www.projectcounter.org/pirus.html

The PIRUS Code of Practice responds to the growing demand from
scholars, funding agencies and publishers for a wider range of
reliable measures of the impact of scholarly articles. Usage is an
important measure of impact and the PIRUS Code of Practice provides a
standard for recording, consolidating and reporting usage at the
individual article level that can be easily implemented by
COUNTER-compliant publishers and aggregators, as well as by
repositories. This Code of Practice is an important outcome of the
JISC- funded PIRUS (Publisher and  Institutional Repository Usage
Statistics) project, whose overall aim was  to assess the feasibility
of recording, reporting and consolidating  usage of individual journal
articles hosted by Publishers, Aggregators, Institutional Repositories
and Subject Repositories.

PIRUS builds on, and is consistent with, the COUNTER Code of Practice.
COUNTER will be responsible for its ongoing development and
management.   Implementation of PIRUS is not a requirement for
COUNTER-compliance, but publishers who wish to provide their authors
and customers with reliable, consistent usage statistics at the
individual article level are encouraged to adopt this new standard.
PIRUS covers the following areas: article types to be counted; article
versions to be counted; data elements to be measured; definitions of
these data elements; requirements for data processing; content and
format of usage reports.  While this Release focuses on journal
articles, its principles may be applied to other categories of content
items that are well defined, and have sufficiently robust metadata
associated with them

The PIRUS standard has already been implemented for UK academic
institutional repositories by IRUS-UK (http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk/),
a national service that enables UK institutional repositories to share
and expose usage statistics based on the PIRUS standard. IRUS-UK
collects raw usage data from UK institutional repositories and
processes these data into PIRUS-compliant statistics.

- About COUNTER -

COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources) is a
multi-agency international initiative whose objective is to develop a
set of internationally accepted, extendible Codes of Practice that
allows the usage of online information products and services to be
measured more consistently.

For more information, please visit the PIRUS page of the COUNTER
website at: http://www.projectcounter.org/pirus.html

Follow Project COUNTER on Twitter: www.twitter.com/projectcounter

Best wishes,

Emily Gillingham
Director of Library Relations
Global Research
Wiley
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