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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:38:10 +0000


PRESS RELEASE

COUNTER4 successfully introduced at De Gruyter Online

Berlin, 12 March 2014 - Version 4 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for
e-Resources has been introduced as standard at De Gruyter Online.
COUNTER4 is the current international standard for the creation and
distribution of usage statistics for electronic resources such as
eBooks, eJournals, and databases.

"With COUNTER4 our customers now have access to dynamic data reports
that are indispensable for the analysis and planning of their
budgets," says Ben Ashcroft, Director of Sales at De Gruyter.

COUNTER statistics are a joint initiative of libraries and publishers
in order to assure consistent, credible, and comparable statistics on
the usage of various electronic resources.

De Gruyter
Ulrike Lippe
Manager, Public Relations
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