Hi Theresa,

 

I wouldn’t reconcile them unless I was aware that a specific publisher had inflated their counts and then I would favor the PDF counts. (I don’t believe reconciling them is the best use of an e-resources librarian’s time, but try telling that to colleagues that don’t want to cancel their low-use journals!)

 

If you are pulling the reports and working with them, then you can choose to just look at the pdf counts or to look at the totals. 

 

Often you don’t require that much granularity for renewal decisions and certainly you won’t have the time to look that closely at everything. However, when you are on the fence about something, you can look more closely at these counts and base your cost-per-use calculation on the number of PDFs.

 

Good luck!

 

Stephanie

 

Stephanie H. Wical

Electronic Resources & Acquisitions Librarian

Mugar Memorial Library
Boston University

771 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215

 

Phone:  617-358-3967

E-mail:   wical@bu.edu

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2428-2551

 

 

 

 

Hi all

 

I am fairly new to this work and am hoping you all can assist me with a question on COUNTER reports.  How do you reconcile HTML/PDF duplication in the JR1 reports? To this point, I have been using the reporting period total information, but someone recently mentioned that some vendors will double count the HTML view and PDF view for the same article.  I saw that this will be addressed in COUNTER 5, but for now I am not sure what to do.

 

I searched the archives and didn’t see anything about this. Any help you can give is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Theresa Carlson

 

 

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